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Asked: 2026-05-27T05:22:51+00:00

I have following ant mail task – <target name=sendtestreport > <mail mailhost=smtp.com mailport=1025 subject=Test

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I have following ant mail task –

<target name="sendtestreport" > 
    <mail mailhost="smtp.com" mailport="1025" subject="Test build" >
        <from address="test@gmail.com" />           
        <replyto address="test@gmail.com" />
        <to address="test@gmail.com" />
        <message>test message</message>
        <attachments>
        </attachments>
    </mail>
</target>

And I have both activation and mail jar available in my project “lib” folder. I want to be able to send mail with out having to keep these jars in ant download location. Is it possible to let ant know about my “lib” folder to see javaxmail and activation jars. Some thing like If I could specify class path from with in this target.

Right now when I execute this target I always encounter exception – 

BUILD FAILED
java.lang.ClassNotFound
Exception: javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage
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  1. Editorial Team

    Unforunately you can’t.
    You have to put Library Dependencies into the ant classpath somehow.

    This could be the ANTH_HOME/lib dir or a change to the command line arguments.

    Ant has a command-line argument to specify a lib dir:

    -lib <path> specifies a path to search for jars and classes

    You could also call ant from ant itself with that info, which may be a bit ugly:

    <exec executable="ant">
  <arg value="-lib"/>
  <arg value="PATH_TO_MY_LIB"/>
  <arg value="target"/>
</exec>

    If you execute this task from eclipse, you can add the libs to the run definition of the task and share this run definition with other developers.

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