Re: Sending EMails AUTOMATICALLY thro' Servlets and JavaMail

[Rajneesh Garg]

Hi,   You are quite right when u say that there should be a standalone class for this mail prog. Thia is actually what I have designed. I am calling this class in my servlet. I too agree with you that this class needs to be called  at an appropraite time. however, I am not sure of the way of invoking this class at a particular hour.   Regards, Rajneesh Garg ----- Original Message ----- From: Andras Balogh To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 4:23 PM Subject: Re: Sending EMails AUTOMATICALLY thro' Servlets and JavaMail Hi,   Reading your problem here is what i have thought:   - i wouldn't write a servlet, i would rather have a standalone class - this can be invoked by the cron daemon (on Linux type systems) once a day or more than once a day.   Hope it helps a little bit,            Andras.   ----- Original Message ----- From: Rajneesh Garg To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 9:29 AM Subject: Sending EMails AUTOMATICALLY thro' Servlets and JavaMail Hello,   I am working on a project involving servlets. Here, I am required to send an email at a particular hour of the day. I know how to send an email using JavaMail. However, sending an email at a particular time, is giving me problems. I have written a small email program which can send the emails at a particular hour of the day. However, it occurs only when the servlet is running.   I have added this program to the JWS also. here too, I have mentioned that servlet be loaded automatically at the time of start up. However, it is not giving the desired results. Please help me in it. Do I need to have a thread running all the times in background which will calculate the time, and will subsequently send the emails? I have not been able to implement this thread. However, at the same moment, I think it will be too costly to have a thread running in the background, calculating the time. What should be the optimised approach?   Any pointers in this directions, with or without helping code, will be highly helpful.   Regards,   Rajneesh Garg   Keep Smiling. It does improve your face value. :-)