How to download JavaMail (mail.jar) and JAF (activation.jar) using maven

Question

I want to do this tutorial https://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/java_sending_email.htm about sending emails with java and the first line of the tutorial says that I need to download JavaMail (mail.jar) and JAF (activation.jar), and I want to download those jars using maven is that possible since this popular website says that is not possible http://www.mkyong.com/maven/how-to-download-javamail-api-from-maven/ , I tried searching in the maven repository but there are too many jars with the same name

Solution 1

You simply need to add this dependency to your maven project:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.sun.mail</groupId>
    <artifactId>javax.mail</artifactId>
    <version>1.5.6</version>
</dependency>

No need to add activation too (unless you want to use a specific version) as it is already a dependency of javax.mail such that it will be added as dependency to your project by transitivity.

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You can find all the artifacts' description in the home page of the javamail project.

Solution 2

Use the following links to get the required artifacts from the maven central repository:
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.mail/mail/1.4
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.activation/activation/1.1.1

Or

Add these to your pom.xml.

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
    <artifactId>mail</artifactId>
    <version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
    <artifactId>activation</artifactId>
    <version>1.1.1</version>
</dependency>