Send e-mail using Java mail

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In this blog, we are going to learn how to send e-mail using java mail API.

A Brief Idea

Java Mail API provides a platform-independent and protocol-independent framework to build mail and messaging applications.The JavaMail API provides facilities for reading and sending email. Service providers implement particular protocols. Several service providers are included with the JavaMail API package; others are available separately. The JavaMail API is implemented as a Java optional package that can be used on JDK 1.4 and later on any operating system.

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You must use your own mail server, or one provided by your Internet Service Provider or the company you work for. Your network administrator can give you the information necessary to configure JavaMail to work with your mail server.

I am going to write a general purpose java class that can send mail from any valid email account. User can send mail using his/her valid Gmail/YahooMail/Others email account.

Configuration parameters for Gmail Account 

• Host Server Name/IP : smtp.gmail.com
• Port : 465

Configuration parameters for YahooMail Account

• Host Server Name/IP : smtp.mail.yahoo.com
• Port : 465

 Configuration parameters for personal mail server

• Host Server Name/IP : IP address of mail your server/name
• Port : 25 [default]

Here We Go

The java file name is  SendMailUsingJavaMail.java

 

package simple.javamail;

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.InternetAddress;

import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;

public class SendMailUsingJavaMail

{

  private String USER_ID = null;

  private String USER_PWD = null;

  

  public String sendEmail(String strHostName,String nPort,

   String strSenderEmailAddress,String strSenderEmailPassword,

   String strRecipientEmailAddress,String strMessageContent,

   String strSubject,boolean isSSL)

  {

    USER_ID = strSenderEmailAddress;

    USER_PWD = strSenderEmailPassword;

    

    Session session = null;

    MimeMessage mimeMsg = null;

    

    //Create properties, get Session

    Properties props = new Properties();

    //The SMTP server to connect to

    props.put("mail.smtp.host", strHostName);

    //The SMTP server port to connect to

    props.put("mail.smtp.port",nPort);

    

    //Default user name for SMTP. Sender email account

    props.put("mail.smtp.user",strSenderEmailAddress);

    props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");

     

    //Used for SSL

    if(isSSL)

    {

     props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class","javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory");

     props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback", "false");

    }

    

    // To see what is going on behind the scene

    props.put("mail.debug", "true");

    try

    {

     SMTPAuthenticator auth = (SMTPAuthenticator) new SMTPAuthenticator();

     session = Session.getInstance(props, auth);

     session.setDebug(true);

     mimeMsg = new MimeMessage(session);

     mimeMsg.setText(strMessageContent);

     mimeMsg.setSubject(strSubject);

     mimeMsg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(strSenderEmailAddress));

     mimeMsg.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO,new 

     InternetAddress(strRecipientEmailAddress));

     Transport.send(mimeMsg);

     return "SUCCEESS";

    }

    catch (MessagingException mEx)

    {

     mEx.getMessage();
     return "FAILED";

    }

    finally

    {

     // Write your cleaning stuff here

    }

  }

   

  /* Inner class used for user authentication */

  class SMTPAuthenticator extends javax.mail.Authenticator

  {

   public PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication()

   {

    return new PasswordAuthentication(USER_ID,USER_PWD);

   }

  }

}

Now, You can use this class to send an email from any valid email account.You have to pass the appropriate parameters to the method sendEmail(...).

Here is the description of parameters of the method sendEmail(...).

• StrHostName : The host name of the mail server for the specified protocol. For e.g. ,smtp.mail.yahoo.com / smtp.gmail.com / yourserver.domain.com,IP

• nPort : The port number of the mail server for the specified protocol. If not specified the protocol's default port number is used. For eg., 25 / 465

• strSenderEmailAddress : The user name to use when connecting to mail servers using the specified protocol. Overrides the mail.user property. For e.g., abc@gmail.com / abc@yahoo.com

• strSenderEmailPassword : Password of sender email account. For e.g., passwordABC

• strRecipientEmailAddress : Recipient email address. For e.g., xyz@gmail.com  /  xyz@domain.com

• strMessageContent : Content of the mail. It can be in simple text format or in html  tag format. In case of html format , you have to use setContent() method as mimeMsg.setContent(strMessageContent,"text/html");