= JavaMail Build Instructions = To download the most recent JavaMail source code you'll need [ http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ Mercurial ]. Mercurial is available in [ http://opensolaris.org/os/ OpenSolaris ] and most Linux distros. Once you've installed Mercurial, the following command will check out a copy of the source code: % hg clone https://kenai.com/hg/javamail~mercurial javamail Or, to check out the version corresponding to a particular release, use a tag. For example, to check out the 1.4.4 version: % hg clone -r JAVAMAIL-1_4_4 https://kenai.com/hg/javamail~mercurial javamail To build JavaMail you'll need [ http://maven.apache.org/ Maven ]. To simply build everything, use: % cd javamail % mvn install You'll find the javax.mail.jar file in mail/target/javax.mail.jar, or the equivalent mail.jar file in oldmail/target/mail.jar. See [[ Workspace Structure ]] for a description of the workspace.