By Muneeswaran
via wp.me
Published: Mar 22 2010 / 08:32
In the previous article, we have looked at sending mail with Java Mail API.Sending e-mail was relatively simple with only one protocol (SMTP) to handle. But Reception involves two protocols, POP3 and IMAP. POP3 is the older protocol, which offers a single queue of mail messages as a single inbox. IMAP is the more modern protocol, which presents mail messages as entries in a hierarchy of folders, one of which will be an inbox. Java Mail comes with Provider implementations for POP3 and IMAP, and the secure versions of those as POP3S and IMAPS.
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