I'm trying to send an email using Java:
import java.util.*;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
import javax.activation.*;
public class SendEmail {
public static void main(String [] args) {
// Recipient's email ID needs to be mentioned.
String to = "[email protected]";
// Sender's email ID needs to be mentioned
String from = "[email protected]";
// Assuming you are sending email from localhost
String host = "localhost";
// Get system properties
Properties properties = System.getProperties();
// Setup mail server
properties.setProperty("mail.smtp.host", host);
// 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.send(message);
System.out.println("Sent message successfully....");
}catch (MessagingException mex) {
mex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
I am getting the error :
javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 25;
nested exception is:java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1706)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:525)
Will this code work to send email?
Answer
The following code works very well with Google SMTP server. You need to supply your Google username and password.
import com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport;
import java.security.Security;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.internet.AddressException;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
/**
*
* @author doraemon
*/
public class GoogleMail {
private GoogleMail() {
}
/**
* Send email using GMail SMTP server.
*
* @param username GMail username
* @param password GMail password
* @param recipientEmail TO recipient
* @param title title of the message
* @param message message to be sent
* @throws AddressException if the email address parse failed
* @throws MessagingException if the connection is dead or not in the connected state or if the message is not a MimeMessage
*/
public static void Send(final String username, final String password, String recipientEmail, String title, String message) throws AddressException, MessagingException {
GoogleMail.Send(username, password, recipientEmail, "", title, message);
}
/**
* Send email using GMail SMTP server.
*
* @param username GMail username
* @param password GMail password
* @param recipientEmail TO recipient
* @param ccEmail CC recipient. Can be empty if there is no CC recipient
* @param title title of the message
* @param message message to be sent
* @throws AddressException if the email address parse failed
* @throws MessagingException if the connection is dead or not in the connected state or if the message is not a MimeMessage
*/
public static void Send(final String username, final String password, String recipientEmail, String ccEmail, String title, String message) throws AddressException, MessagingException {
Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
final String SSL_FACTORY = "javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory";
// Get a Properties object
Properties props = System.getProperties();
props.setProperty("mail.smtps.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
props.setProperty("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class", SSL_FACTORY);
props.setProperty("mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback", "false");
props.setProperty("mail.smtp.port", "465");
props.setProperty("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", "465");
props.setProperty("mail.smtps.auth", "true");
/*
If set to false, the QUIT command is sent and the connection is immediately closed. If set
to true (the default), causes the transport to wait for the response to the QUIT command.
ref : http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/javadocs/com/sun/mail/smtp/package-summary.html
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5205249
smtpsend.java - demo program from javamail
*/
props.put("mail.smtps.quitwait", "false");
Session session = Session.getInstance(props, null);
// -- Create a new message --
final MimeMessage msg = new MimeMessage(session);
// -- Set the FROM and TO fields --
msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(username + "@gmail.com"));
msg.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, InternetAddress.parse(recipientEmail, false));
if (ccEmail.length() > 0) {
msg.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.CC, InternetAddress.parse(ccEmail, false));
}
msg.setSubject(title);
msg.setText(message, "utf-8");
msg.setSentDate(new Date());
SMTPTransport t = (SMTPTransport)session.getTransport("smtps");
t.connect("smtp.gmail.com", username, password);
t.sendMessage(msg, msg.getAllRecipients());
t.close();
}
}
Update on 11 December 2015
Username + password is no longer a recommended solution. This is due to
I tried this and Gmail sent the email used as username in this code an email saying that We recently blocked a sign-in attempt to your Google Account, and directed me to this support page: support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255 so it looks for it to work, the email account being used to send needs to reduce their own security
Google had released Gmail API - https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/?hl=en. We should use oAuth2 method, instead of username + password.
Here's the code snippet to work with Gmail API.
GoogleMail.java
import com.google.api.client.util.Base64;
import com.google.api.services.gmail.Gmail;
import com.google.api.services.gmail.model.Message;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
/**
*
* @author doraemon
*/
public class GoogleMail {
private GoogleMail() {
}
private static MimeMessage createEmail(String to, String cc, String from, String subject, String bodyText) throws MessagingException {
Properties props = new Properties();
Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
MimeMessage email = new MimeMessage(session);
InternetAddress tAddress = new InternetAddress(to);
InternetAddress cAddress = cc.isEmpty() ? null : new InternetAddress(cc);
InternetAddress fAddress = new InternetAddress(from);
email.setFrom(fAddress);
if (cAddress != null) {
email.addRecipient(javax.mail.Message.RecipientType.CC, cAddress);
}
email.addRecipient(javax.mail.Message.RecipientType.TO, tAddress);
email.setSubject(subject);
email.setText(bodyText);
return email;
}
private static Message createMessageWithEmail(MimeMessage email) throws MessagingException, IOException {
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
email.writeTo(baos);
String encodedEmail = Base64.encodeBase64URLSafeString(baos.toByteArray());
Message message = new Message();
message.setRaw(encodedEmail);
return message;
}
public static void Send(Gmail service, String recipientEmail, String ccEmail, String fromEmail, String title, String message) throws IOException, MessagingException {
Message m = createMessageWithEmail(createEmail(recipientEmail, ccEmail, fromEmail, title, message));
service.users().messages().send("me", m).execute();
}
}
To construct an authorized Gmail service through oAuth2, here's the code snippet.
Utils.java
import com.google.api.client.auth.oauth2.Credential;
import com.google.api.client.extensions.jetty.auth.oauth2.LocalServerReceiver;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleClientSecrets;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.javanet.GoogleNetHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.http.HttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.json.gson.GsonFactory;
import com.google.api.client.util.store.FileDataStoreFactory;
import com.google.api.services.gmail.Gmail;
import com.google.api.services.gmail.GmailScopes;
import com.google.api.services.oauth2.Oauth2;
import com.google.api.services.oauth2.model.Userinfoplus;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.yccheok.jstock.engine.Pair;
/**
*
* @author yccheok
*/
public class Utils {
/** Global instance of the JSON factory. */
private static final GsonFactory JSON_FACTORY = GsonFactory.getDefaultInstance();
/** Global instance of the HTTP transport. */
private static HttpTransport httpTransport;
private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(Utils.class);
static {
try {
// initialize the transport
httpTransport = GoogleNetHttpTransport.newTrustedTransport();
} catch (IOException ex) {
log.error(null, ex);
} catch (GeneralSecurityException ex) {
log.error(null, ex);
}
}
private static File getGmailDataDirectory() {
return new File(org.yccheok.jstock.gui.Utils.getUserDataDirectory() + "authentication" + File.separator + "gmail");
}
/**
* Send a request to the UserInfo API to retrieve the user's information.
*
* @param credentials OAuth 2.0 credentials to authorize the request.
* @return User's information.
* @throws java.io.IOException
*/
public static Userinfoplus getUserInfo(Credential credentials) throws IOException
{
Oauth2 userInfoService =
new Oauth2.Builder(httpTransport, JSON_FACTORY, credentials).setApplicationName("JStock").build();
Userinfoplus userInfo = userInfoService.userinfo().get().execute();
return userInfo;
}
public static String loadEmail(File dataStoreDirectory) {
File file = new File(dataStoreDirectory, "email");
try {
return new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(file.toURI())), "UTF-8");
} catch (IOException ex) {
log.error(null, ex);
return null;
}
}
public static boolean saveEmail(File dataStoreDirectory, String email) {
File file = new File(dataStoreDirectory, "email");
try {
//If the constructor throws an exception, the finally block will NOT execute
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file), "UTF-8"));
try {
writer.write(email);
} finally {
writer.close();
}
return true;
} catch (IOException ex){
log.error(null, ex);
return false;
}
}
public static void logoutGmail() {
File credential = new File(getGmailDataDirectory(), "StoredCredential");
File email = new File(getGmailDataDirectory(), "email");
credential.delete();
email.delete();
}
public static Pair<Pair<Credential, String>, Boolean> authorizeGmail() throws Exception {
// Ask for only the permissions you need. Asking for more permissions will
// reduce the number of users who finish the process for giving you access
// to their accounts. It will also increase the amount of effort you will
// have to spend explaining to users what you are doing with their data.
// Here we are listing all of the available scopes. You should remove scopes
// that you are not actually using.
Set<String> scopes = new HashSet<>();
// We would like to display what email this credential associated to.
scopes.add("email");
scopes.add(GmailScopes.GMAIL_SEND);
// load client secrets
GoogleClientSecrets clientSecrets = GoogleClientSecrets.load(Utils.JSON_FACTORY,
new InputStreamReader(Utils.class.getResourceAsStream("/assets/authentication/gmail/client_secrets.json")));
return authorize(clientSecrets, scopes, getGmailDataDirectory());
}
/** Authorizes the installed application to access user's protected data.
* @return
* @throws java.lang.Exception */
private static Pair<Pair<Credential, String>, Boolean> authorize(GoogleClientSecrets clientSecrets, Set<String> scopes, File dataStoreDirectory) throws Exception {
// Set up authorization code flow.
GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow flow = new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow.Builder(
httpTransport, JSON_FACTORY, clientSecrets, scopes)
.setDataStoreFactory(new FileDataStoreFactory(dataStoreDirectory))
.build();
// authorize
return new MyAuthorizationCodeInstalledApp(flow, new LocalServerReceiver()).authorize("user");
}
public static Gmail getGmail(Credential credential) {
Gmail service = new Gmail.Builder(httpTransport, JSON_FACTORY, credential).setApplicationName("JStock").build();
return service;
}
}
To provide a user friendly way of oAuth2 authentication, I made use of JavaFX, to display the following input dialog
The key to display user friendly oAuth2 dialog can be found in MyAuthorizationCodeInstalledApp.java and SimpleSwingBrowser.java