diff --git a/modules/extdata/uri/pom.xml b/modules/extdata/uri/pom.xml
index e305c4410a310..b20ac22475bec 100644
--- a/modules/extdata/uri/pom.xml
+++ b/modules/extdata/uri/pom.xml
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@
         <bad-signed.clr>bad-signed</bad-signed.clr>
         <bad-signed.jar>${bad-signed.fn}-${bad-signed.clr}.jar</bad-signed.jar>
 
+        <javax.mail.version>1.6.2</javax.mail.version>
+
     </properties>
 
     <build>
@@ -233,7 +235,7 @@
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>com.sun.mail</groupId>
                         <artifactId>javax.mail</artifactId>
-                        <version>1.5.2</version>
+                        <version>${javax.mail.version}</version>
                     </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
                 <executions>
@@ -295,7 +297,7 @@
                                     <zipfileset dir="modules/uri-dependency/target/classes" />
                                 </zip>
 
-                                <copy file="${settings.localRepository}/com/sun/mail/javax.mail/1.5.2/javax.mail-1.5.2.jar" todir="${basedir}/target/classes/lib" />
+                                <copy file="${settings.localRepository}/com/sun/mail/javax.mail/${javax.mail.version}/javax.mail-${javax.mail.version}.jar" todir="${basedir}/target/classes/lib" />
 
                                 <!--uri-libs.gar-->
                                 <gar destfile="${basedir}/target/deploy2/uri-libs.gar" basedir="${basedir}/target/classes/lib" />