1. /*

  2.  * Copyright 2002-2004 the original author or authors.

  3.  * 

  4.  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  5.  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  6.  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

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  8.  *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  9.  * 

  10.  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  11.  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

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  13.  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

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  15.  */ 

  16. 

  17. package org.springframework.mail;

  18. 

  19. /**

  20.  * This interface defines a strategy for sending simple mails. Can be

  21.  * implemented for a variety of mailing systems due to the simple requirements.

  22.  * For richer functionality like MIME messages, consider JavaMailSender.

  23.  *

  24.  * <p>Allows for easy testing of clients, as it does not depend on JavaMail's

  25.  * infrastructure classes: no mocking of JavaMail Session or Transport necessary.

  26.  *

  27.  * @author Dmitriy Kopylenko

  28.  * @author Juergen Hoeller

  29.  * @since 10.09.2003

  30.  * @see org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSender

  31.  * @version $Id: MailSender.java,v 1.6 2004/03/18 02:46:05 trisberg Exp $

  32.  */

  33. public interface MailSender {

  34. 	

  35. 	/**

  36. 	 * Send the given simple mail message.

  37. 	 * @param simpleMessage message to send

  38. 	 * @throws MailException in case of message, authentication or send errors

  39. 	 */

  40. 	void send(SimpleMailMessage simpleMessage) throws MailException;

  41. 

  42. 	/**

  43. 	 * Send the given array of simple mail messages in batch.

  44. 	 * @param simpleMessages messages to send

  45. 	 * @throws MailException in case of message, authentication or send errors

  46. 	 */

  47. 	void send(SimpleMailMessage[] simpleMessages) throws MailException;

  48. 

  49. }