I am back from vacation! :) Well, I think the issue here is that there is no notion of "conversation" in an asynchronous method. Once started, the async method is invoked automatically without user intervention -- the user might be long gone when the method is invoked. So, the user session / conversation (or any JSF state) is not propagated into the method. Similarly, the outcome of the asyn method is not rendered to JSF pages. My guess is that you will need to use the regular JavaMail API to send out email from the async method. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4075957#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...