Question

I want to send email through Java (Any email like from yahoo, gmail, or any other part).

I tried the code give here, however I get exception as

javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 25;
  nested exception is:
    java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
    at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1972)
    at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:642)
    at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:295)
    at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:176)
    at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:125)
    at javax.mail.Transport.send0(Transport.java:194)
    at javax.mail.Transport.send(Transport.java:124)
    at myemailtesting.MyEmailTesting.main(MyEmailTesting.java:72)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:351)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:213)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:200)
    at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:432)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:478)
    at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.createSocket(SocketFetcher.java:319)
    at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.getSocket(SocketFetcher.java:233)
    at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1938)
    ... 7 more

Code I have is

/*
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package myemailtesting;

/**
*
* @author xxxx
*/
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Transport;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;

public class MyEmailTesting {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        System.out.println("This is EMAIL testing!!!");
        // Recipient's email ID needs to be mentioned.
        String to = "[e-mail]";

        // Sender's email ID needs to be mentioned
        String from = "[e-mail]";

        // Assuming you are sending email from localhost
        String host = "localhost";

        // Get system properties
        System.out.println("test 001");
        Properties properties = System.getProperties();
        System.out.println("test 002");

        // Setup mail server
        System.out.println("test 003");
        properties.setProperty("mail.smtp.host", host);

        // Get the default Session object.
        System.out.println("test 004");
        Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(properties);

        try {
            // Create a default MimeMessage object.
            System.out.println("test 005");

            MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);

            System.out.println("test 006");

            // Set From: header field of the header.
            message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));

            System.out.println("test 007");
            // Set To: header field of the header.
            message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO,
                    new InternetAddress(to));

            System.out.println("test 008");
            // Set Subject: header field
            message.setSubject("This is the Subject Line!");

            System.out.println("test 009");
            // Now set the actual message
            message.setText("This is actual message");

            System.out.println("test 010");
            // Send message
            Transport.send(message);
            System.out.println("Sent message successfully....");
        } catch (MessagingException mex) {
            mex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

For de-bugging I was using stateement as System.out.println("test 00X");

I got output as

This is EMAIL testing!!!
test 001
test 002
test 003
test 004
test 005
test 006
test 007
test 008
test 009
test 010
javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 25;

I tried many codes but I am not getting any output. Getting some exception.

I see at some place, I need to keep SMTP server UP. I don’t know what needs to be done. I believe apache commons will be good option.

Could someone help me in below steps

1. jar files that are needed
2. how to setup smptp
3. send email (from any site i.e. from yahoo or gmail or any private email id)

OR

step by step process for sending email in java…

Answer 1

Try this… its working…

import org.apache.commons.mail.*;
public class EmailTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            Email email = new SimpleEmail();
            email.setSmtpPort(587);
            email.setAuthenticator(new DefaultAuthenticator("[e-mail]",
                    "yourPassword"));
            email.setDebug(true);
            email.setHostName("smtp.gmail.com");
            email.setFrom("[e-mail]");
            email.setSubject("Hi");
            email.setMsg("This is a test mail ... :-)");
            email.addTo("[e-mail]");
            email.setTLS(true);
            email.send();
            System.out.println("Mail sent!");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Exception :: " + e);
        }
    }
}