Tom, I don't follow you with the global setting. I still think it should be able to be configured on the node itself. Imo, there are cases in which you want the mail directly: eg for handling an exception or a timer times out when waiting for an external system -> send an email to the system admin directly. In this case, scheduling it and waiting for the jobExecutor will cause a serious and unacceptable slow-down ... unless the jobExecutor is polling all the time (which is not good for performance). For normal mails, I agree they are to be scheduled. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4223887#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...