Question

All I want to do is send an email in Java. Here is the example I found:

import org.apache.commons.mail.SimpleEmail;

public class Email {

    public static void sendMessage(String emailaddress, String subject, String body) {
        try {
            SimpleEmail email = new SimpleEmail();
            email.setHostName("valid ip address here");
            email.addTo(emailaddress);
            email.setFrom("[e-mail]", "No reply");
            email.setSubject(subject);
            email.setMsg(body);
            email.send();
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

I immediately get the following exception on the SimpleEmail email = new SimpleEmail(); line:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.mail.SimpleEmail

I have the following JAR in my project (using Netbeans):
commons-email-1.2.jar

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Not sure why SimpleEmail didn’t work. But this did:

import javax.mail.*;
  import javax.mail.internet.*;

  import java.util.Properties;

  public class Email {

     public static void sendMessage(String emailaddress, String subject, String body) {
        try {
           Properties props = new Properties();
           props.setProperty("mail.transport.protocol", "smtp");
           props.setProperty("mail.host", "myhost");

           Session mailSession = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
           Transport transport = mailSession.getTransport();

           MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(mailSession);
           message.setSubject("Testing javamail plain");
           message.setContent("This is a test", "text/plain");
           message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress("[e-mail]"));

           transport.connect();
           transport.sendMessage(message,
                   message.getRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO));
           transport.close();
        } catch (Exception ex) {
           ex.printStackTrace();
        }
     }
  }

Thanks for the suggestions.