I'm using a Java class that sends mails using JavaMail. I really need to use it even though authentication is not yet implemented. Basically it just has SMTP hostname, port, from, to, subject and body.
I need a SMTP server for it. Most of the ones I've tried use authentication.
Does anyone know maybe a local smtp server for ubuntu?
It doesn't have to be very complex/secure because it's just a proof of concept.
Something like sending a text email from my gmail account to my yahoo account. Thanks
Related
I need that the application be able to track the smtp host by the email account, because it have to be capable to work with any mail account.
There is a way to do this?
Short answer is: no you can't.
To some degree you can get a smtp host from an email address, but not all email providers have an smtp server, and most email providers will require user specific authentication when using their smtp servers.
It's still possible to send mail from your computer when your email provider doesn't provide an smtp server because most Internet providers also provide you with an smtp server. You can't determine this smtp server based on someone's emailadres.
If your application always has to be able to send mail I would look into a free smtp server somewhere, or host your own.
I have a java application which send mail using SMTP,but recently a modified its property file and restarted my tomcat server [although property change is a password change and is not related to smtp ].
now it is not sending mails :(
I checked my smtp server and tried to send mail from it.It is sending.
Any idea what went wrong?
any help would be appreciated
thanks in advance
Your SMTP server logs should tell you whether something was sent to it, and why it didn't relay the email.
If your change was password related, an authentication error may be the cause.
I would look at the following first:
Which credentials is your Java application using to send requests to the SMTP server?
Then, are these credentials still accepted on the server?
Finally, most SMTP servers will have a separate list of either included or excluded source IPs, from where to accept message requests, see if your Java app's source machine is allowed there.
I checked that I am not able to access the pop 3 port and imap port. I think I can only access via https webmail.
So for this case how do I actually connect to the microsoft exchange server and read the emails inside using java mail can anyone provide any specific code samples to achieve this?
Connecting to Exchange via OWA sounds like its going to be difficult; here's a post which deals with at least the authentication side of things.
In any event, you can connect to an Exchange server via IMAP if the IMAP service is turned on. Check with your server admin to confirm the service is running. If it is running, see this other post for how to set connection parameters.
I want to send an email without using SMTP protocol. Is that possible to implement using Java? Since, my remote machine does not have access to google, yahoo and other accounts. and even my office mail can not be configured using SMTP server due to some security issues. Is any other way to send an email from remote machine.
The JavaMail section at java.sun.com lists many third party products that plugin to the JavaMail API. Hopefully one of those will fit your needs but I can't be more specific because you don't say what non-SMTP sending options you have open to you.
You could setup Your own SMTP server on remote machine, IMHO, it is better than incorporate it into program directly.
I want to send an email without using
SMTP protocol. Is that possible to
implement using Java?
With Java you can implement any Layer-5 network protocol.
ALL mail servers using SMTP to receive messages. At any time you have to connect with SMTP to the destination mail server.
If you cannot get out from local network to the Internet with some services you will need a proxy or network tunnel to connect the destination.
I have read that to send email in Java I need to obtain my ISP's SMTP address, but if I am intending to host my web app online, will this be my hosts ISP SMTP address?
EDIT: So I need to find out my clients ISP's SMTP address and send via this?
JavaMail is the built-in API for e-mail.
Ask your ISP if the host runs sendmail or equivalent locally (the web server host). It may be an advantage to hand off to sendmail as early as possible. In other words, try "localhost" as the SMTP server name.
Why? JavaMail is a simple SMTP client. It doesn't deal with DNS MX records. It doesn't have a built-in capability to queue mail if the SMTP server is unavailable. There's the default Java infinte DNS cache so that a DNS change to the SMTP host won't register with your app (tunable, but one more tuning to do). These are things that a local sendmail (or equivalent) process will do.
So if you can hand off the e-mail to a local sendmail/equivalent, that may improve e-mail delivery reliability. Assuming the local sendmail works, of course. It's how we configure some in-house apps that uses JavaMail to send mail and fixed all the above problems.
No, unless your webhost is the same as your ISP or your webhost also offers SMTP services.
In response to your edit, yes you need your ISP's SMTP address by the sound of things.
It will be the SMTP address you want to forward email through.
If you want to send email through your ISP account then it will be that SMTP.