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Send email using Gmail Mail Server

Description:	This is very good example ..just copy and paste and just change username and password in sendMail function call ... Add as much of to ,cc, bcc addresses.. Try now
Date added:	06 November, 2006
Submitted By:	iamdvr
Rating:	9
Download:	N/A
Instructions:	set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;activation.jar;mail.jar javac Mail.java java Mail
Source Code:	//set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;activation.jar;mail.jar import javax.mail.; import javax.mail.internet.; import java.util.; public class Mail { String d_email = "iamdvr@gmail.com", d_password = "***", d_host = "smtp.gmail.com", d_port = "465", m_to = "iamdvr@yahoo.com", m_subject = "Testing", m_text = "Hey, this is the testing email using smtp.gmail.com."; public static void main(String[] args) { String[] to={"XXX@yahoo.com"}; String[] cc={"XXX@yahoo.com"}; String[] bcc={"XXX@yahoo.com"}; //This is for google Mail.sendMail("venkatesh@dfdf.com","password","smtp.gmail.com","465","true","true",true,"javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory","false",to,cc,bcc,"hi baba don't send virus mails..","This is my style...of reply..If u send virus mails.."); } public synchronized static boolean sendMail(String userName,String passWord,String host,String port,String starttls,String auth,boolean debug,String socketFactoryClass,String fallback,String[] to,String[] cc,String[] bcc,String subject,String text){ Properties props = new Properties(); //Properties props=System.getProperties(); props.put("mail.smtp.user", userName); props.put("mail.smtp.host", host); if(!"".equals(port)) props.put("mail.smtp.port", port); if(!"".equals(starttls)) props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable",starttls); props.put("mail.smtp.auth", auth); if(debug){ props.put("mail.smtp.debug", "true"); }else{ props.put("mail.smtp.debug", "false"); } if(!"".equals(port)) props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", port); if(!"".equals(socketFactoryClass)) props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class",socketFactoryClass); if(!"".equals(fallback)) props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback", fallback); try { Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null); session.setDebug(debug); MimeMessage msg = new MimeMessage(session); msg.setText(text); msg.setSubject(subject); msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress("p_sambasivarao@sutyam.com")); for(int i=0;i<to.length;i++){ msg.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(to[i])); } for(int i=0;i<cc.length;i++){ msg.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.CC, new InternetAddress(cc[i])); } for(int i=0;i<bcc.length;i++){ msg.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.BCC, new InternetAddress(bcc[i])); } msg.saveChanges(); Transport transport = session.getTransport("smtp"); transport.connect(host, userName, passWord); transport.sendMessage(msg, msg.getAllRecipients()); transport.close(); return true; } catch (Exception mex) { mex.printStackTrace(); return false; } } }

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Comments [ Leave Comment ]

Posted by Gopal at 12 July, 2007

Brilliantly coded, Thanks ! . But I'm still getting exception: "Could not connect to SMTP host: smtp.gmail.com, port: 25;"

Posted by Ejaz Azeem at 24 August, 2007

I have run this code without error, If you can post full exception trace here, I may help then.

Regards.

Posted by Ashraf at 01 October, 2007

Excellent. works great, Thanks!

Posted by ashwin at 19 November, 2007

Hi dude,
thanks for sending..........

Posted by rahul at 06 December, 2007

Here is the stacktrace of the error i'm getting...

C:javamail>javac Mail.java

C:javamail>java Mail
DEBUG: setDebug: JavaMail version 1.4.1
DEBUG: getProvider() returning javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtp,com.sun.mail.s
mtp.SMTPTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc]
DEBUG SMTP: useEhlo true, useAuth true
DEBUG SMTP: trying to connect to host "smtp.gmail.com", port 465, isSSL false
javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: smtp.gmail.com, p
ort: 465;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1391)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:41
2)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:288)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:169)
at Mail.sendMail(Mail.java:72)
at Mail.main(Mail.java:20)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.BaseSSLSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source
)
at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.createSocket(SocketFetcher.java:233)
at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.getSocket(SocketFetcher.java:163)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1359)
... 5 more

Please help back to rectify the error