Is it possible to send an email from my Java application using a GMail account? I have configured my company mail server with Java app to send email, but that's not going to cut it when I distribute the application. Answers with any of using Hotmail, Yahoo or GMail are acceptable.
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The minimum required:
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.PasswordAuthentication;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Transport;
import javax.mail.internet.AddressException;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
public class MessageSender {
public static void sendHardCoded() throws AddressException, MessagingException {
String to = "[email protected]";
final String from = "[email protected]";
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
properties.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
properties.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
properties.put("mail.smtp.port", "587");
Session session = Session.getInstance(properties,
new javax.mail.Authenticator() {
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return new PasswordAuthentication(from, "BeNice");
}
});
MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(to));
message.setSubject("Hello");
message.setText("What's up?");
Transport.send(message);
}
}
My complete code as below is working well:
package ripon.java.mail;
import java.util.*;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
public class SendEmail
{
public static void main(String [] args)
{
// Sender's email ID needs to be mentioned
String from = "[email protected]";
String pass ="test123";
// Recipient's email ID needs to be mentioned.
String to = "[email protected]";
String host = "smtp.gmail.com";
// Get system properties
Properties properties = System.getProperties();
// Setup mail server
properties.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
properties.put("mail.smtp.host", host);
properties.put("mail.smtp.user", from);
properties.put("mail.smtp.password", pass);
properties.put("mail.smtp.port", "587");
properties.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
// Get the default Session object.
Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(properties);
try{
// Create a default MimeMessage object.
MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
// Set From: header field of the header.
message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
// Set To: header field of the header.
message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO,
new InternetAddress(to));
// Set Subject: header field
message.setSubject("This is the Subject Line!");
// Now set the actual message
message.setText("This is actual message");
// Send message
Transport transport = session.getTransport("smtp");
transport.connect(host, from, pass);
transport.sendMessage(message, message.getAllRecipients());
transport.close();
System.out.println("Sent message successfully....");
}catch (MessagingException mex) {
mex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
The posted code solutions may cause problems when you need to set up multiple SMTP sessions anywhere within the same JVM.
The JavaMail FAQ recommends using
Session.getInstance(properties);
instead of
Session.getDefaultInstance(properties);
because the getDefault will only use the properties given the first time it is invoked. All later uses of the default instance will ignore property changes.
See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/faq-135477.html#getdefaultinstance
Something like this (sounds like you just need to change your SMTP server):
String host = "smtp.gmail.com";
String from = "user name";
Properties props = System.getProperties();
props.put("mail.smtp.host", host);
props.put("mail.smtp.user", from);
props.put("mail.smtp.password", "asdfgh");
props.put("mail.smtp.port", "587"); // 587 is the port number of yahoo mail
props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
InternetAddress[] to_address = new InternetAddress[to.length];
int i = 0;
// To get the array of addresses
while (to[i] != null) {
to_address[i] = new InternetAddress(to[i]);
i++;
}
System.out.println(Message.RecipientType.TO);
i = 0;
while (to_address[i] != null) {
message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, to_address[i]);
i++;
}
message.setSubject("sending in a group");
message.setText("Welcome to JavaMail");
// alternately, to send HTML mail:
// message.setContent("<p>Welcome to JavaMail</p>", "text/html");
Transport transport = session.getTransport("smtp");
transport.connect("smtp.mail.yahoo.co.in", "user name", "asdfgh");
transport.sendMessage(message, message.getAllRecipients());
transport.close();
Here's an easy-to-use class for sending emails with Gmail. You need to have the JavaMail library added to your build path or just use Maven.
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.activation.DataHandler;
import javax.activation.DataSource;
import javax.activation.FileDataSource;
import javax.mail.BodyPart;
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.Multipart;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Transport;
import javax.mail.internet.AddressException;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart;
public class GmailSender
{
private static String protocol = "smtp";
private String username;
private String password;
private Session session;
private Message message;
private Multipart multipart;
public GmailSender()
{
this.multipart = new MimeMultipart();
}
public void setSender(String username, String password)
{
this.username = username;
this.password = password;
this.session = getSession();
this.message = new MimeMessage(session);
}
public void addRecipient(String recipient) throws AddressException, MessagingException
{
message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(recipient));
}
public void setSubject(String subject) throws MessagingException
{
message.setSubject(subject);
}
public void setBody(String body) throws MessagingException
{
BodyPart messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
messageBodyPart.setText(body);
multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);
message.setContent(multipart);
}
public void send() throws MessagingException
{
Transport transport = session.getTransport(protocol);
transport.connect(username, password);
transport.sendMessage(message, message.getAllRecipients());
transport.close();
}
public void addAttachment(String filePath) throws MessagingException
{
BodyPart messageBodyPart = getFileBodyPart(filePath);
multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);
message.setContent(multipart);
}
private BodyPart getFileBodyPart(String filePath) throws MessagingException
{
BodyPart messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
DataSource dataSource = new FileDataSource(filePath);
messageBodyPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(dataSource));
messageBodyPart.setFileName(filePath);
return messageBodyPart;
}
private Session getSession()
{
Properties properties = getMailServerProperties();
Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(properties);
return session;
}
private Properties getMailServerProperties()
{
Properties properties = System.getProperties();
properties.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
properties.put("mail.smtp.host", protocol + ".gmail.com");
properties.put("mail.smtp.user", username);
properties.put("mail.smtp.password", password);
properties.put("mail.smtp.port", "587");
properties.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
return properties;
}
}
Example usage:
GmailSender sender = new GmailSender();
sender.setSender("[email protected]", "mypassword");
sender.addRecipient("[email protected]");
sender.setSubject("The subject");
sender.setBody("The body");
sender.addAttachment("TestFile.txt");
sender.send();
Value added:
Session.getInstance() recommended over Session.getDefaultInstance() import java.io.File;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.activation.DataHandler;
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Transport;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart;
import javax.mail.util.ByteArrayDataSource;
public class Gmailer {
private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(Gmailer.class.getName());
public static void main(String[] args) {
send();
}
public static void send() {
Transport transport = null;
try {
String accountEmail = "[email protected]";
String accountAppPassword = "";
String displayName = "Display-Name ?";
String replyTo = "[email protected]";
String to = "[email protected]";
String cc = "[email protected]";
String bcc = "[email protected]";
String subject = "Subject ?";
String message = "<span style='color: red;'>?</span>";
String type = "html"; // or "plain"
String mimeTypeWithEncoding = "text/" + type + "; charset=" + StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name();
File attachmentFile = new File("Attachment.pdf");
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/MIME_types/Common_types
String attachmentMimeType = "application/pdf";
byte[] bytes = ...; // read file to byte array
Properties properties = System.getProperties();
properties.put("mail.debug", "true");
// i found that this is the only property necessary for a modern java mail version
properties.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
// https://javaee.github.io/javamail/FAQ#getdefaultinstance
Session session = Session.getInstance(properties);
MimeMessage mimeMessage = new MimeMessage(session);
// probably best to use the account email address, to avoid landing in spam or blacklists
// not even sure if the server would accept a differing from address
InternetAddress from = new InternetAddress(accountEmail);
from.setPersonal(displayName, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
mimeMessage.setFrom(from);
mimeMessage.setReplyTo(InternetAddress.parse(replyTo));
mimeMessage.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, InternetAddress.parse(to));
mimeMessage.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.CC, InternetAddress.parse(cc));
mimeMessage.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.BCC, InternetAddress.parse(bcc));
mimeMessage.setSubject(subject, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
MimeMultipart multipart = new MimeMultipart();
MimeBodyPart messagePart = new MimeBodyPart();
messagePart.setContent(mimeMessage, mimeTypeWithEncoding);
multipart.addBodyPart(messagePart);
MimeBodyPart attachmentPart = new MimeBodyPart();
attachmentPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(new ByteArrayDataSource(bytes, attachmentMimeType)));
attachmentPart.setFileName(attachmentFile.getName());
multipart.addBodyPart(attachmentPart);
mimeMessage.setContent(multipart);
transport = session.getTransport();
transport.connect("smtp.gmail.com", 587, accountEmail, accountAppPassword);
transport.sendMessage(mimeMessage, mimeMessage.getAllRecipients());
}
catch(Exception e) {
// I prefer to bubble up exceptions, so the caller has the info that someting went wrong, and gets a chance to handle it.
// I also prefer not to force the exception in the signature.
throw e instanceof RuntimeException ? (RuntimeException) e : new RuntimeException(e);
}
finally {
if(transport != null) {
try {
transport.close();
}
catch(Exception e) {
LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "failed to close java mail transport: " + e);
}
}
}
}
}
If you want to use outlook with Javamail API then use
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as a host for more and complete working code Check out this answer.
Other people have good answers above, but I wanted to add a note on my experience here. I've found that when using Gmail as an outbound SMTP server for my webapp, Gmail only lets me send ~10 or so messages before responding with an anti-spam response that I have to manually step through to re-enable SMTP access. The emails I was sending were not spam, but were website "welcome" emails when users registered with my system. So, YMMV, and I wouldn't rely on Gmail for a production webapp. If you're sending email on a user's behalf, like an installed desktop app (where the user enters their own Gmail credentials), you may be okay.
Also, if you're using Spring, here's a working config to use Gmail for outbound SMTP:
<bean id="mailSender" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl">
<property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8"/>
<property name="host" value="smtp.gmail.com"/>
<property name="port" value="465"/>
<property name="username" value="${mail.username}"/>
<property name="password" value="${mail.password}"/>
<property name="javaMailProperties">
<value>
mail.debug=true
mail.smtp.auth=true
mail.smtp.socketFactory.class=java.net.SocketFactory
mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback=false
</value>
</property>
</bean>
Hi try this code....
package my.test.service;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.mail.Authenticator;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.PasswordAuthentication;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.Transport;
import javax.mail.internet.AddressException;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
public class Sample {
public static void main(String args[]) {
final String SMTP_HOST = "smtp.gmail.com";
final String SMTP_PORT = "587";
final String GMAIL_USERNAME = "[email protected]";
final String GMAIL_PASSWORD = "xxxxxxxxxx";
System.out.println("Process Started");
Properties prop = System.getProperties();
prop.setProperty("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
prop.setProperty("mail.smtp.host", SMTP_HOST);
prop.setProperty("mail.smtp.user", GMAIL_USERNAME);
prop.setProperty("mail.smtp.password", GMAIL_PASSWORD);
prop.setProperty("mail.smtp.port", SMTP_PORT);
prop.setProperty("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
System.out.println("Props : " + prop);
Session session = Session.getInstance(prop, new Authenticator() {
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return new PasswordAuthentication(GMAIL_USERNAME,
GMAIL_PASSWORD);
}
});
System.out.println("Got Session : " + session);
MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
try {
System.out.println("before sending");
message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(GMAIL_USERNAME));
message.addRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO,
InternetAddress.parse(GMAIL_USERNAME));
message.setSubject("My First Email Attempt from Java");
message.setText("Hi, This mail came from Java Application.");
message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO,
InternetAddress.parse(GMAIL_USERNAME));
Transport transport = session.getTransport("smtp");
System.out.println("Got Transport" + transport);
transport.connect(SMTP_HOST, GMAIL_USERNAME, GMAIL_PASSWORD);
transport.sendMessage(message, message.getAllRecipients());
System.out.println("message Object : " + message);
System.out.println("Email Sent Successfully");
} catch (AddressException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (MessagingException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
An easy route would be to have the gmail account configured/enabled for POP3 access. This would allow you to send out via normal SMTP through the gmail servers.
Then you'd just send through smtp.gmail.com (on port 587)
This is what I do when i want to send email with attachment, work fine. :)
public class NewClass {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
Properties props = System.getProperties();
props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
props.put("mail.smtp.port", "465"); // smtp port
Authenticator auth = new Authenticator() {
@Override
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return new PasswordAuthentication("username-gmail", "password-gmail");
}
};
Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, auth);
MimeMessage msg = new MimeMessage(session);
msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress("[email protected]"));
msg.setSubject("Try attachment gmail");
msg.setRecipient(RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress("[email protected]"));
//add atleast simple body
MimeBodyPart body = new MimeBodyPart();
body.setText("Try attachment");
//do attachment
MimeBodyPart attachMent = new MimeBodyPart();
FileDataSource dataSource = new FileDataSource(new File("file-sent.txt"));
attachMent.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(dataSource));
attachMent.setFileName("file-sent.txt");
attachMent.setDisposition(MimeBodyPart.ATTACHMENT);
Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart();
multipart.addBodyPart(body);
multipart.addBodyPart(attachMent);
msg.setContent(multipart);
Transport.send(msg);
} catch (AddressException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(NewClass.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
} catch (MessagingException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(NewClass.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}
}
Even though this question is closed, I'd like to post a counter solution, but now using Simple Java Mail (Open Source JavaMail smtp wrapper):
final Email email = new Email();
String host = "smtp.gmail.com";
Integer port = 587;
String from = "username";
String pass = "password";
String[] to = {"[email protected]"};
email.setFromAddress("", from);
email.setSubject("sending in a group");
for( int i=0; i < to.length; i++ ) {
email.addRecipient("", to[i], RecipientType.TO);
}
email.setText("Welcome to JavaMail");
new Mailer(host, port, from, pass).sendMail(email);
// you could also still use your mail session instead
new Mailer(session).sendMail(email);
//set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;activation.jar;mail.jar
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
import java.util.*;
public class Mail
{
String d_email = "[email protected]",
d_password = "****",
d_host = "smtp.gmail.com",
d_port = "465",
m_to = "[email protected]",
m_subject = "Testing",
m_text = "Hey, this is the testing email using smtp.gmail.com.";
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String[] to={"[email protected]"};
String[] cc={"[email protected]"};
String[] bcc={"[email protected]"};
//This is for google
Mail.sendMail("[email protected]", "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("[email protected]"));
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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