JavaMail – GMail via SSL

To send an email using your Java Application is simple enough but to start with you should have JavaMail API and Java Activation Framework (JAF) installed on your machine.

You can download latest version of JavaMail from Java's standard website.

You can download latest version of JAF from Java's standard website.


package com.mkyong.common;

import java.util.Properties;
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.PasswordAuthentication;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Transport;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;

public class SendMailSSL {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", "465");
props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class",
"javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory");
props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
props.put("mail.smtp.port", "465");

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

try {

Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
message.setFrom(new InternetAddress("from@no-spam.com"));
message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO,
InternetAddress.parse("to@no-spam.com"));
message.setSubject("Testing Subject");
message.setText("Dear Mail Crawler," +
"\n\n No spam to my email, please!");

Transport.send(message);

System.out.println("Done");

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