Spring Mail

[dorr67]

I am trying to send an email using Spring and GMail. However, the email is not getting sent. I'm not receiving any errors. Below is my setup:

<bean id="mailSender" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailS enderImpl">
<property name="host" value="smtp.gmail.com"/>
<property name="port" value="25"/>
<property name="username" value="MyUsername"/>
<property name="password" value="MyPassword"/>
<property name="javaMailProperties">
<props>
<prop key="mail.smtp.auth">true</prop>
<prop key="mail.smtp.starttls.enable">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>


<bean id="userDefServiceTarget"
class="com.xxx.setups.userdef.business.UserDefMgr" >
<property name="mailSender"><ref local="mailSender"/></property>
</bean>

public void postMail()
{
SimpleMailMessage message = new SimpleMailMessage() ;
message.setSentDate(new Date()) ;
message.setSubject("Test") ;
message.setText("This is a test email.") ;
message.setFrom("test@xx.com") ;
mailSender.send(message) ;
}

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

[sami25]

Hi,

Try and check if there is connectivity to the smtp server,

check if you are behind a firewall or a proxy, you would have to configure the proxyHost and proxyPort if needed

[dorr67]

Thanks for the reply, Sami. I try to telnet to smtp.gmail.com 25 and get the following: 220 mx.google.com ESTMP 6sm37606787ywn.7 -- That's all I get. My windows firewall is disabled.

[Developer Dude]

Just a thought: on the same machine, try to connect to GMail using whatever email client is handy using the same settings. If this succeeds, then I would think the next step would be to deduce what is different between the settings in your code and the settings in the client.

When I get home maybe I will have time to try to hook up to GMail with JavaMail, but I do it a little differently. I use Velocity and templates because I send out merged mail, so I use the following from the Velocity/Spring examples:

protected MimeMessagePreparator prepareMessage (final String emailBody,
    final String toAddress, final String fromAddress) throws MessagingException
    {
        MimeMessagePreparator preparator = new MimeMessagePreparator()
        {
            public void prepare (final MimeMessage mimeMessage)
                            throws MessagingException
            {
                MimeMessageHelper messageHelper = new MimeMessageHelper(
                                mimeMessage);
                messageHelper.setTo(toAddress);
                messageHelper.setFrom(fromAddress);
                messageHelper.setSubject(_subject);
                messageHelper.setText(emailBody, true);
            }
        };

        return preparator;
    }

and

_mailSender.send(prepareMessage(body, toAddress, fromAddress ));

where _mailSender is a JavaMailSender configured for an internal SMTP server.

Hope this helps.

[dorr67]

Thanks Dude for the reply. I am able to get to gmail thru Outlook. I will dig back in the code and see what is different between the two.

[Developer Dude]

Thanks Dude for the reply. I am able to get to gmail thru Outlook. I will dig back in the code and see what is different between the two.

If you haven't already, you might try a different SMTP server if you have access to one - something with different settings - as another datapoint to help you debug.