Sending mail from yahoo id to other email ids using Javamail API

Question

I am not able to send email from my yahoo id using Java mail API. I tried different options from Google,but fails. Please have a look my below code and let me know if I am missing something. In my point of view Yahoo does not provide the free service to send mails, but I am not sure. Please provide your thoughts on this.

import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
import java.util.Properties;

public class MailExample {
    private static final String SMTP_HOST_NAME = "smtp.mail.yahoo.com";
    private static final int SMTP_HOST_PORT = 587;//465,587,25
    private static final String SMTP_AUTH_USER = "[email protected]";
    private static final String SMTP_AUTH_PWD  = "my password";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
       new MailExample().test();
    }

    public void test() throws Exception{
        Properties props = new Properties();

        props.put("mail.transport.protocol", "smtp");
        props.put("mail.smtp.host", SMTP_HOST_NAME);
        props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
        // props.put("mail.smtps.quitwait", "false");

        Session mailSession = Session.getDefaultInstance(props);
        mailSession.setDebug(true);
        Transport transport = mailSession.getTransport();

        MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(mailSession);
        message.setSubject("Testing SMTP-SSL");
        message.setContent("This is a test", "text/plain");

        message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO,
             new InternetAddress("[email protected]"));

        transport.connect
          (SMTP_HOST_NAME, SMTP_HOST_PORT, SMTP_AUTH_USER, SMTP_AUTH_PWD);

        transport.sendMessage(message,
            message.getRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO));
        transport.close();
    }
}

The above code works fine for Gmail, but for Yahoo it's giving error like:

DEBUG: setDebug: JavaMail version 1.4.1 DEBUG: getProvider() 
  returning javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtp,com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport,
  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,1.4.1] DEBUG SMTP: useEhlo true, 
  useAuth true 
DEBUG SMTP: trying to connect to host "smtp.mail.yahoo.com", port 587, 
  isSSL false Exception in thread "main" 
javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP 
  host: smtp.mail.yahoo.com, port: 587;   nested exception is:  
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect    
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1391)  
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:412)  
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:288)     
at com.sample.mailexample.MailExample.test(MailExample.java:313)    
at com.sample.mailexample.MailExample.main(MailExample.java:291) Caused by: 
   java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect     
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)    
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)   
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)    
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)     
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)     
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)  
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)  
at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.createSocket(SocketFetcher.java:233)     
at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.getSocket(SocketFetcher.java:189)    
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1359)  
... 4 more

How can I solve this?

Answer 1

The complete code to send email from Yahoo using JavaMail API as below:

package ripon.java.mail;
import java.util.*;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;

public class SendFromYahoo
{
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.mail.yahoo.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();
   }
}
}