The root element in an Email definition Holds a list of headers to be used when the email is sent Defines an email header to be used when the email is sent. Configures the address from which the email is sent. Configures the address to which the recipients should reply. Describes an address where the content of the element is the email address of the recipient and the name attribute represents the personal name of the recipient. The personal name of the recipient. A list of addresses to which the email will be sent. A list of addresses to which the email will be cc'ed. A list of addresses to which the email will be bcc'ed. Represents an address list. This list may hold an unlimited number of addresses but must hold at least one address. Defines the priority of the email. There are 5 levels of priorities: HIGHEST, HIGH, NORMAL, LOW, LOWEST. The subject of the email The body of the email in plain text. An HTML version of the email body. Once defined, the framework will try to do its best to send the email in a multipart format such that email client that support html will be able to present the html version, while other clients will show the plain text version. A list of attachments to be attached to the email. A list of attachments to be embedded in the email (e.g. css and images) Represents a list of attachments. An attachment. If this represents a normal attachment the name attribute indicates the file name. If it represents an embedded attachment the name represents the content id. The value of this tag is the name/location of the resource to be attached. Typically Spring's DefaultResourceLoader will be used to resolve this resource and so all resource descritors that are used in Spring apply here (e.g. classpath:/test.xml or file:/test.xml).