Saludos Bro, gracias por tomarte el tiempo.
he colocado el código tal cual me lo diste y en el log encontré esto:
Cita: Jul 17, 2013 9:46:49 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /mail.jsp(2,4) Invalid directive
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jsp Error(DefaultErrorHandler.java:40)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatc h(ErrorDispatcher.java:407)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspErro r(ErrorDispatcher.java:88)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(P arser.java:469)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseFileDirecti ves(Parser.java:1739)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.jav a:127)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doPars e(ParserController.java:255)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parseD irectives(ParserController.java:120)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(C ompiler.java:165)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compil er.java:332)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compil er.java:312)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compil er.java:299)
at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(Js pCompilationContext.java:589)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.servic e(JspServletWrapper.java:317)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFil e(JspServlet.java:313)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspSe rvlet.java:260)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.in ternalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.do Filter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invo ke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invo ke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke( StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke (ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invok e(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.servic e(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(H ttp11Processor.java:857)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11Conn ectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run( JIoEndpoint.java:489)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
Yo concidero que mi problema esta en web.xml que dices tu? de ante mano gracias.