Can we send Mail as response to a request?

[sajan goel]

using servlets can we send response to a particular mail id for a specific request?

if yes somebody please tell me how to do this

[Adeel Ansari]

Yes, why not. But don't forget it is good to respond the requesting user, at least a 200 message as a response.

It should go like

1. receive request
2. manipulate it
3. create email message
4. send the email
5. fabricate the response
6. send the response to the original sender of the request

Hope you got it.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Just to make it perfectly clear, the mail would be in response to the HTTP request, it would not be the response (which must be HTTP, obviously).

You'd need a mail server (or at least an SMTP server), and then you can use the JavaMail API to send mails. The http://faq.javaranch.com/java/JavaEnterpriseEditionFaq page contains many useful links regarding JavaMail, including extensive tutorials and sample code.