Application context would be initialized, but since this is an async invocation, there'd be no session or conversation context available (and, most likely, no HttpSession active, either), thus no Seam-email rendering. I believe there's a JIRA issue addressing just that (making FacesContext available for async calls) - until then, I switched temporarily to regular JavaMail View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4096165#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...