Which artifact for org.springframework.mail?

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I'd like to use spring support for sending mails. My project is built with maven-2 and I use spring-core 2.5.5 I tried to look in maven central repo for artifact to include in my pom.xml, and the only one I found is spring support. The problem is that the highest version in repo is 2.0.8 and it depends on spring-core v. 2.0.8. Should I add it and exclude from its dependencies spring-core, spring-aop and so on, or should I look for another artifact (but which one will do?) or use another repo? Which is the proper maven-2 artifact for org.springframework.mail and where can I find it?

I got here for Spring Boot, so leaving a comment which might help someone in the future: Include this Maven Dependency: ` org.springframework.boot spring-boot-starter-mail ` — ImtiazeA, Apr 15 '19 at 06:24

score 147 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 02 '09 at 12:10

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The mail stuff is found, rather bizarrely, in the context-support artifact.

answered Sep 02 '09 at 12:10

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spring framework is ridiculous.....where in [link](http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/reference/mail.html) does it ever mention the need for "context-support". Hey Spring....only 1/2 the world has wasted their life in Maven.... – Jason Oct 30 '12 at 14:18
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... and all org.springframework.mail source assets are hosted in the [main *SpringSource/spring-framework* repository](https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-framework/tree/master/spring-context-support/src/main/java/org/springframework/mail). – Abdull Aug 17 '13 at 14:36
Any idea how to find this? Is there a reverse lookup table or something I can use? – Eaton Emmerich Mar 24 '22 at 10:17

score 35 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 04 '13 at 04:18

 <!-- ########### SPRING-CONTEXT-SUPPORT ############ -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.5.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 18 '15 at 06:00

For using MailSender and SimpleMailMessage through Spring you can use these imports in your code:

import org.springframework.mail.MailSender;
import org.springframework.mail.SimpleMailMessage;

And add their jars in your project.

Otherwise if you are using maven then you have to make these imports in your source and then add dependencies :

You will get the mail support from both of them.

Which artifact for org.springframework.mail?

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