diff --git a/NOTICE.txt b/NOTICE.txt
index 140b02713..c9e014f07 100644
--- a/NOTICE.txt
+++ b/NOTICE.txt
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
   
   This product uses the following external (Open Source) libraries:
   
-    - activation package from jre6 
     - SLF4J (http://http://www.slf4j.org/)
     - Sun Java Mail API, shipped with JavaEE or as seperate download) (http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/)
+    - Jakarta Activation (https://eclipse-ee4j.github.io/jaf/)
     - Email Validation regular expressions, by Les Hazlewood, Casey Connor, Benny Bottema (https://github.com/bbottema/email-rfc2822-validator)
     - DKIM signing library https://github.com/markenwerk/java-utils-mail-dkim (based on https://github.com/usrflo/DKIM-for-JavaMail)
     - Outlook Message Parser https://github.com/bbottema/outlook-message-parser (based on http://auxilii.com/msgparser/)
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bf6997541..ca55bde58 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -83,6 +83,16 @@
             <artifactId>jakarta.mail</artifactId>
             <version>1.6.3</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.sun.activation</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jakarta.activation</artifactId>
+            <version>1.2.1</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.sun.mail</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jakarta.mail</artifactId>
+            <version>1.6.3</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.github.bbottema</groupId>
             <artifactId>emailaddress-rfc2822</artifactId>