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Hiran Chaudhuri commented on EMAIL-211:
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I updated the initial description as I was forced to move to another library.
If other users find themselves in similar situations this would be a complete
no-go for this library.
Thus I believe the priority should be raised even higher.
> Add connection pooling
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>
> Key: EMAIL-211
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/EMAIL-211
> Project: Commons Email
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Hiran Chaudhuri
> Priority: Major
>
> Congratulations for an easy to use straightforward client library.
> However the application I created spends most of it's time connecting to the
> mailserver. How come?
>
> Apparently the examples on
> [https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-email/userguide.html] follow this
> pattern:
>
> {code:java}
> Email email = new SimpleEmail();
> ...
> email.addTo("[email protected]"); email.send();
> {code}
> As an effect, in the background it creates a JavaMail Session and Transport,
> uses it to send the email and then forgets about it again. In my environment
> building a connection requires to get an authentication token, then using
> that for secure SMTP. Establishing such a connection takes a few seconds,
> which limits the throughput of sending emails.
> Even worse: As my organization's SMTP server sees too many connections coming
> in it assumes a DOS attack and stops responding. That means my application is
> locked out despite it tries to send legit emails. I have to find some other
> way.
>
> Please add a feature (or document how to do if already possible) to reuse
> connections for sending several mails. Also the solution should be thread
> safe so a multithreaded application can send emails in parallel.
>
> I guess this should be easily doable by combining commons-pool and
> commons-email. However my attempts failed miserably, making me want to switch
> to other mail client libraries altogether.
>
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