Accessing the Distribution list

Question

Hi All,
I am exploring the ways to access the Distribution lists from the email server programatically.
Following are few of the queries:
1. How to send / fetch mails for the particular distribution list from email server.
2. Is it possible to create the distribution list within code. If yes, then do all the mail server provide this kind of functionality.
3. As the Distribution list is a group of email id's and not the one specified user. How does the authentication happens for this.
Any pointer to the relevant documenation.
Regards

Answer 1

hi,
try this.
package Process;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.*;
public class VBSUtils {
private VBSUtils() {  }
public static List<String> listRunningProcesses() {
List<String> processList = new ArrayList<String>();
try {
File file = File.createTempFile("realhowto",".vbs");
file.deleteOnExit();
FileWriter fw = new java.io.FileWriter(file);
String vbs = "Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(\"WScript.Shell\")\n"
+ "Set locator = CreateObject(\"WbemScripting.SWbemLocator\")\n"
+ "Set service = locator.ConnectServer()\n"
+ "Set processes = service.ExecQuery _\n"
+ " (\"select name from Win32_Process\")\n"
+ "For Each process in processes\n"
+ "wscript.echo process.Name \n"
+ "Next\n"
+ "Set WSHShell = Nothing\n";
fw.write(vbs);
fw.close();
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cscript //NoLogo " + file.getPath());
BufferedReader input =
new BufferedReader
(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
String line;
while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
processList.add(line);
input.close();
catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
return processList;
public static void main(String[] args){
List<String> processes = VBSUtils.listRunningProcesses();
String result = "";
Iterator<String> it = processes.iterator();
int i = 0;
while (it.hasNext()) {
result += it.next() +",";
i++;
if (i==10) {
result += "\n";
i = 0;
msgBox("Running processes : " + result);
public static void msgBox(String msg) {
javax.swing.JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog((java.awt.Component)
null, msg, "VBSUtils", javax.swing.JOptionPane.DEFAULT_OPTION);
}