Are socket needed to send emails?????

Question

hi guys,
lets say i need to send an email notification everytime i finish doing a cetain task....do i need to create and use a socket to send these emails????
thanks in advance for any help...
lost and blur.
Below are the codes to send email:
(So are socket needed???)
public void execute(String mailto, String mailcc, String mailsub, String mailbody){
//session object inside the catch block also(in case of DCOException).
DCOSession ds = null;
try{
ds = new DCOSession(); // Create new DCOSession object
ds.login("erstest02"); // Log in as current Notes client user
DCOMail dm = new DCOMail(); // Create new DCOMail object
dm.setDcoSession(ds);// Pass DCOSession to mail
//dm.setDebug(true);
dm.setSendTo(mailto);
dm.setCopyTo(mailcc);
//dm.setBlindCopyTo();
dm.setSubject(mailsub);
dm.setBody(mailbody);
//System.out.println("before mail sent");
dm.send(); // Send the mail
ds.logout(); // Log out of the session
System.out.println("mail sent to "+mailto);
}catch(DCOException e1){
e1.printStackTrace();
try{
if(ds!=null){
ds.logout(); //Log out of session even if exception is thrown
}catch(Exception ee1){
System.out.println("Exception thrown while trying to logout of session");
ee1.printStackTrace();
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
try{
if(ds!=null){
ds.logout(); //Log out of session even if exception is thrown
}catch(Exception ee2){
System.out.println("Exception thrown while trying to logout of session");
ee2.printStackTrace();
}

Answer 1

lets say i need to send an email notification
everytime i finish doing a cetain task....do i need
to create and use a socket to send these emails????Yes, sockets are needed to send emails. However, you don't need to deal with them yourself. You can use the JavaMail API. It will hide those low level details from you and let you deal with concepts that are related to sending emails--addresses, contents, servers, etc.
http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/JavaMail/