Missing ant-javamail.jar file on Macintosh - java

I've been running the built-in Ant from the command line on a Macintosh (10.5.5) and have run into some trouble with the Mail task. Running the Mail task produces the following message:
[mail] Failed to initialise MIME mail: org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.email.MimeMailer
This is most likely due to a missing ant-javamail.jar file in the /usr/share/ant/lib directory. I see a "ant-javamail-1.7.0.pom" file in this directory but not the appropriate jar file. Anyone know why this jar file might be missing and what the best way to resolve the problem is?

Here's what I ended up doing to resolve the problem:
Downloaded the latest version of Ant from http://ant.apache.org/
The "built-in" Ant is installed in /usr/share/ant; I didn't want to overwrite that version so I extracted the new, full version into /usr/local/share/apache-ant-1.7.1/
As npellow points out, the the Mac doesn't include mail.jar or activation.jar -- these files can be downloaded and extracted from JavaMail API and JavaBeans Activation Framework respectively and copied to the new ant lib folder (same folder as all the ant-*.jar files)
The ant command (/usr/bin/ant) is a symbolic link to /usr/share/ant/bin/ant; I updated this link to point to the new version (ln -s /usr/local/share/apache-ant-1.7.1/bin/ant /usr/bin/ant)
If for some reason you need to make the old version of Ant the default again, just use
ln -s /usr/share/ant/bin/ant /usr/bin/ant
Steps 2-4 were done at the command prompt as root. That's it -- the Mac now has the latest, complete version of Ant and the Mail task works just fine.

Download the Java Mail libraries from: http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/ .
You will also need http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/glasgow/jaf.html
A list of all external dependencies required by Ant's optional tasks are outlined here http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html .
Another way to get dependencies for Ant very easily, is to run:
ant -f fetch all
from $ANT_HOME. You can also run -projecthelp for a full list of targets:
all load all the libraries
antlr load antlr libraries
bcel load bcel libraries
beanshell load beanshell support
bsf load bsf libraries
debugging internal ant debugging
get-m2 Download the Maven2 Ant tasks
jdepend load jdepend libraries
jruby load jruby
junit load junit libraries
jython load jython
logging load logging libraries
networking load networking libraries (commons-net; jsch)
regexp load regexp libraries
rhino load rhino
script load script languages
xerces load an updated version of Xerces
xml load full XML libraries (xalan, resolver)

I also got this working a slightly different way:
Created directory ~/.ant/lib.
Downloaded JavaMail API and copied the jars into that directory.
Downloaded JavaBeans Activation Framework and copied the jars into that directory.
Downloaded Apache Ant 1.7.0 (not the latest, matches the installed version) and copied the apache-ant-1.7.0/lib/ant-javamail.jar file into that directory.
This only solves the problem for a single user account, but that was fine for my purposes and saved me the hassle of having two separate ant installations on my machine.

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