Java Mail API allows to send emails from your Java application. Very often it will be necessary to send emails when you are developing a business related applications or simply hobby projects.
Using Java Mail API is relatively straightforward. First you need to add the API to your application. You can download the JAR file from https://javaee.github.io/javamail/
You need following data fields to send email
- An account to send email from.
- Password of your email account.
- SMTP server host address
- SMTP server port.
In the following example, we will use gmail account for sending email. For google, SMTP server host address is “smtp.gmail.com” and port is “587”.
Enable Less Secure Access in Gmail
Google recently updated their security by automatically disabling access from third-party application. So you have to enable less secure access from gmail settings in order to use that account from java application.
You can enable it from https://myaccount.google.com/security
If you haven’t enabled it, you will get following email when you try to send email.
Sign-in attempt was blocked.
Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account from a non-Google app. Google blocked them, but you should check what happened. Review your account activity to make sure no one else has access.
Program for sending email using Java Mail API and Gmail account
public static void sendMail(String recepient) throws Exception {
System.out.println("Preparing to send email");
Properties properties = new Properties();
//Enable authentication
properties.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
//Set TLS encryption enabled
properties.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
//Set SMTP host
properties.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
//Set smtp port
properties.put("mail.smtp.port", "587");
//Your gmail address
String myAccountEmail = "xxxxxxxxx@gmail.com";
//Your gmail password
String password = "xxxxxxxx";
//Create a session with account credentials
Session session = Session.getInstance(properties, new Authenticator() {
@Override
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return new PasswordAuthentication(myAccountEmail, password);
}
});
//Prepare email message
Message message = prepareMessage(session, myAccountEmail, recepient);
//Send mail
Transport.send(message);
System.out.println("Message sent successfully");
}
private static Message prepareMessage(Session session, String myAccountEmail, String recepient) {
try {
Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(myAccountEmail));
message.setRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(recepient));
message.setSubject("My First Email from Java App");
String htmlCode = "<h1> WE LOVE JAVA </h1> <br/> <h2><b>Next Line </b></h2>";
message.setContent(htmlCode, "text/html");
return message;
} catch (Exception ex) {
Logger.getLogger(JavaMailUtil.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
return null;
}
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