Question

I receive the following Exception while trying to send an email (using Seam)

Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find vali
d certification path to requested target
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:285)
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:191)
        at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:218)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.validate(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:126)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:209)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:249)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1014)
        ... 68 more
Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
        at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.engineBuild(SunCertPathBuilder.java:174)
        at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(CertPathBuilder.java:238)
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:280)
        ... 74 more

I tested the server by using a plain javamail app with no extra settings and it worked fine.

But using Seams mail-tags the Exception occurs.
– Is there a way to disable SSL?
I realy don’t need SSL.

I found these properties in a forum

mail.smtp.ssl.trust="*"
mail.smtp.starttls.enable="true"

• How could I pass them the properties above through seam framework down to javamail ?

Answer 1

According to Seam reference manual and Seam forum you should be able to disable TLS and SSL directly in your components.xml configuration:

<mail:mail-session debug="true" tls="false" ssl="false" ... />