JAVA MAIL

Can you tell me the requirements for running a sample javamail program to send a mail thru an application ? Can i send a mail thru my application using my hotmail smtp server ot any other smtp server ?
thanks
Nikhil

These days, the recommended way is to use the JavaMail API.
It's a bit fiddly to set up (you have to add two new jar files
to your classpath) but once installed, it works really well.
1. Get JavaMail ("mail.jar") and the Java Activation Framework("activation.jar") from http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/
2. Add these two jar files to your classpath (this may be as easy as adding them to the jre/lib/ext directory in Java 2).
3. Add the following class to your project as "Mailer.java":

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
 
/**
 Example mailer class using Java Mail.
 Courtesy of Efficacy Solutions Limited.
*/
public class Mailer
{
 // put your SMTP server name here, 'localhost' may work on a Unix system.
 //
 private static final String smtpServer = "localhost";
 
 private void sendMail(String to, String from, String subject, String text)
  throws MessagingException
 {
  Properties props = new Properties();
 
  props.put("mail.smtp.host", smtpServer);
  props.put("mail.debug", "false");
 
  Session mailSession = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
  mailSession.setDebug(false);
 
  MimeMessage msg = new MimeMessage(mailSession);
  msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
  msg.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress[] { new InternetAddress(to) } );
  msg.setSubject(subject);
  msg.setSentDate(new Date());
  msg.setHeader("X-Mailer", "Efficacy Solutions Example Mailer");
  msg.setText(text);
  msg.saveChanges();
  Transport.send(msg);
 }
}

4. Examine it, modify it, play with it, have fun.

How would you use this same process and format the email mesage in html format?
Thanks.

Sounds to me like you could use this.
Might save you some time.