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user1551550
user1551550

Reputation: 97

Error while sending mails using smtp

I need to send mail from my gmail account to another. I used the following code.

               String fromaddress = "[email protected]"; 
    String password = "yyy";
    String hostname = "smtp.gmail.com";
    String hoststring = "mail.smtp.host";
    String toaddress = "[email protected]";
    String emailcontent;

    Properties properties = System.getProperties();
    properties.setProperty(hoststring, hostname);
    Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(properties);

    try{
        MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
        message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(fromaddress));
        message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(toaddress));
        message.setSubject("hi");
        emailcontent = "hi...";
        message.setText(emailcontent);
        System.out.println(emailcontent);
        Transport.send(message);
        System.out.println("Sent....");
    }catch (MessagingException mex) 
    {
        mex.printStackTrace();
    }

But i get the error as follows... javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: smtp.gmail.com, port: 25

How am i to solve this. Can you please help me out.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1454

Answers (3)

roger_that
roger_that

Reputation: 9791

public static void sendEmail(Email mail) {

    String host = "smtp.gmail.com";
    String from = "YOUR_GMAIL_ID";
    String pass = "YOUR_GMAIL_PASSWORD";
    Properties props = System.getProperties();
    props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true"); // added this line
    props.put("mail.smtp.host", host);
    props.put("mail.smtp.user", from);
    props.put("mail.smtp.password", pass);
    props.put("mail.smtp.port", "587");
    props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");

    // Get the default Session object.
    Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);

    try {
        // Create a default MimeMessage object.
        MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);

        // Set sender
        message.setFrom(new InternetAddress("Senders_EMail_Id"));

        // Set recipient
        message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress("RECIPIENT_EMAIL_ID"));

        // Set Subject: header field
        message.setSubject("SUBJECT");

        // set content and define type
        message.setContent("CONTENT", "text/html; charset=utf-8");

        Transport transport = session.getTransport("smtp");
        transport.connect(host, from, pass);
        transport.sendMessage(message, message.getAllRecipients());
        transport.close();
      } catch (MessagingException mex) {
        System.out.println(mex.getLocalizedMessage());
    }

}

}`

I think this should do the trick.

Upvotes: 1

Himanshu Bhardwaj
Himanshu Bhardwaj

Reputation: 4123

Just adding few more tweaks to the question above:

Change the port to 465 to enable ssl sending.

I don't think above code will work, as you need to have an authenticator object too. As smtp also requires authentication in case of gmail.

You can do something like:

Have a boolean flag, 

boolean authEnable = true;  //True for gmail
boolean useSSL = true; //For gmail
//Getters and setters for the same

  if (isUseSSL()) {
         properties.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class", "javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory");
         properties.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", "465");
  }

Authenticator authenticator = new javax.mail.Authenticator() {
        protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
            return new PasswordAuthentication("[email protected]", "xyz"));
        }
    };
    if (isAuthEnable()) {
        properties.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
        session = Session.getDefaultInstance(properties, authenticator);
    } else {
        session = Session.getDefaultInstance(properties);
    }

Upvotes: 1

snehal
snehal

Reputation: 1846

I think you need to change the port no. 25 to 587

you can get help from

http://www.mkyong.com/java/javamail-api-sending-email-via-gmail-smtp-example/

gmail setting help link:

http://gmailsmtpsettings.com/

Upvotes: 1

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