Sending Email via gmail smtp server in JAVA

Question

What is the problem with this code? Somehow it is getting in to an infinity loop at the line Transport.send(message); line, no error message, no exception, just maybe infinite loop (i don't know because i don't wait more than 5-10minute)

final String username = "<mail_name>";
final String password = "<password>";

Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
props.put("mail.smtp.port", "465");

Session session = Session.getInstance(props,
        new javax.mail.Authenticator() {
            protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
                return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password);
            }
        });

try {

    Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
    message.setFrom(new InternetAddress("<mail_from>@gmail.com"));
    message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO,
            InternetAddress.parse("<mail_to>@gmail.com"));
    message.setSubject("Test Subject");
    message.setText("Test");

    Transport.send(message);

    System.out.println("Done");

} catch (MessagingException e) {
    throw new RuntimeException(e);
}

Answer 1

Here I am giving some changes, that work fine for me:

Session session = Session.getInstance(props,null);

You instantiate message object as you did. And finally:

Transport transport = session.getTransport("smtp");
String mfrom = "yourGmailUsernameWithout@"// example laabidiraissi 
transport.connect("smtp.gmail.com", mfrom, "thepassword");
transport.sendMessage(message, message.getAllRecipients());

Edit, would you please give me a favor and copy/paste and try this example and show what it displays:

package com.test;

import java.util.Properties;

import javax.mail.BodyPart;
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.Multipart;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Transport;
import javax.mail.internet.AddressException;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart;

import org.junit.Test;

public class EmailService {

@Test
public void test(){
    Properties props = System.getProperties();
    props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", true); // added this line
    props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
    props.put("mail.smtp.user", "username");
    props.put("mail.smtp.password", "password");
    props.put("mail.smtp.port", "587");
    props.put("mail.smtp.auth", true);



    Session session = Session.getInstance(props,null);
    MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);

    System.out.println("Port: "+session.getProperty("mail.smtp.port"));

    // Create the email addresses involved
    try {
        InternetAddress from = new InternetAddress("username");
        message.setSubject("Yes we can");
        message.setFrom(from);
        message.addRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, InternetAddress.parse("receivermail"));

        // Create a multi-part to combine the parts
        Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart("alternative");

        // Create your text message part
        BodyPart messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
        messageBodyPart.setText("some text to send");

        // Add the text part to the multipart
        multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);

        // Create the html part
        messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
        String htmlMessage = "Our html text";
        messageBodyPart.setContent(htmlMessage, "text/html");


        // Add html part to multi part
        multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);

        // Associate multi-part with message
        message.setContent(multipart);

        // Send message
        Transport transport = session.getTransport("smtp");
        transport.connect("smtp.gmail.com", "username", "password");
        System.out.println("Transport: "+transport.toString());
        transport.sendMessage(message, message.getAllRecipients());


    } catch (AddressException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (MessagingException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}
}