Mail session settings
Use this page to configure mail sessions. You can access this console page in one of two ways:
- Resources > Mail > Mail Sessions > mail_session
- Resources > Mail > Mail Providers > mail_provider > Mail Sessions > mail_session
Configuration tab
- Scope
Scope of the mail provider that implements the JavaMail API for this mail session. Only applications that are installed within this scope can use this mail session.
- Provider
Mail provider that WAS uses for this mail session. When creating a mail session: If you previously defined one or more mail providers at the relevant scope, you see a list from which you can select an existing mail provider for your new mail session.
- Create New Provider
Provides the option of configuring a new mail provider for the new mail session.
Create New Provider is displayed only when you click Resources > Mail > Mail session > New to create a new mail session.
Clicking Create New Provider triggers the console to display the mail provider configuration page, where you create a new provider. After you click OK to save your settings, you see the mail session collection page. Click New to define a new mail session for use with the new provider; the console now displays a configuration page that lists the new mail provider as the mail session Provider.
After creating a mail session, you cannot change the provider of that mail session.
- Name
Specify the administrative name of the JavaMail session object.
- JNDI name
Specify the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) name for the resource, including any naming subcontexts.
This name provides the link between the platform binding information for resources that are defined in the client application deployment descriptor and the actual resources bound into JNDI by the platform.
Adhere to the following requirements for JNDI names:
- Do not assign duplicate JNDI names across different resource types (such as mail sessions versus data sources).
- Do not assign duplicate JNDI names for multiple resources of the same type in the same scope.
- Description
Specifies an optional description for your administrative records.
- Category
Specify an optional collection for classifying or grouping sessions.
- Mail transport host
Server that is accessed when sending mail.
- Mail transport protocol
Timeransport protocol that is used when sending mail.
- Mail transport user ID
User ID when the mail transport host requires authentication.
This setting is not generally used for most mail servers. Leave this field blank unless you use a mail server that requires a user ID and password.
- Mail transport password
Password when the mail transport host requires authentication.
This setting is not generally used for most mail servers. Leave this field blank unless you use a mail server that requires a user ID and password.
- Enable strict Internet address parsing
Specifies whether the recipient addresses must be parsed in strict compliance with RFC 822, which is a specifications document issued by the Internet Architecture Board.
This setting is not generally used for most mail applications. RFC 822 syntax for parsing addresses effectively enforces a strict definition of a valid e-mail address. If you select this setting, your JavaMail component adheres to RFC 822 syntax and rejects recipient addresses that do not parse into valid e-mail addresses (as defined by the specification). If you do not select this setting, your JavaMail component does not adhere to RFC 822 syntax and accepts recipient addresses that do not comply with the specification. By default, this setting is not selected. You can view the RFC 822 specification at the following Web address for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc822/.
- Mail from
Mail originator.
This value represents the Internet e-mail address that, by default, displays in the received message, as either the From or the Reply-To address. The recipient's reply comes to this address.
- Mail store host
Server that is accessed when receiving the mail.
This setting, combined with the mail store user ID and password, represents a valid mail account. For example, if the mail account is john_william@my.company.com, then the mail store host is my.company.com.
- Mail store protocol
Protocol that is used when receiving mail; it can be Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3), or any store protocol for which an administrator has installed a provider.
- Mail store user ID
User ID for the given mail account.
For example, if the mail account is john_william@my.company.com then the user is john_william.
- Mail store password
Password for the given mail account .
For example, if the mail account is john_william@my.company.com then enter the password for ID john_william.
- Enable debug mode
Toggles debug mode on and off for this mail session.
Related tasks
Use mail
Configure mail providers and sessions
Reference topic