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Exercise: Background Email Sender

Explore how to keep web applications responsive by sending emails concurrently in the background. Learn to create and manage a fixed thread pool using ExecutorService, submit email tasks, and properly shut down the executor. This exercise demonstrates handling delayed email sending without blocking the main thread.

Problem statement

In a web application, sending an email (such as a welcome message) can take several seconds due to network latency. If we run ...