Problem Sending a Mail from a sessionbean

[stefankuhn]

Hi!

This is really not a JBoss-Problem, but I would appreciate your Help.

I'm not succeding in sendin a Mail from a sessionbean.

The problem is, that the MailServer requires an autentification.
It's an pop3 Mailserver.

Im Using JBoss 3.0.2
J2SE 1.4.0_01
J2EE 1.4 (beta) (which contains an pop3 protcol)

I have added the file javamail.providers to my META-INF directory
(in my applications jar-file).
Content of this file:
protocol=pop3; type=store; class=com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Store; vendor=Sun Microsy stems, Inc;

I have tried this code:
Transport tmpTransport = session.getTransport("pop3");
if (!tmpTransport.isConnected())
tmpTransport.connect(m_POP3Host, m_POP3Account, m_POP3Password);

tmpTransport.send(msg);

(Im successfully using the same values for m_POP3Host, m_POP3Account, m_POP3Password im outlook express!)

This attempt results in an exception saying "invalid provider".

If i ommit the "pop3" in the statement:
Transport tmpTransport = session.getTransport("pop3");

...i get the message:
Sending failed;
nested exception is: class javax.mail.SendFailedException:
Invalid Addresses;
nested exception is: class javax.mail.SendFailedException: 554 :
Relay access denied

I suppose the pop3-autentification is not done right.

Can anyone help?
I realle would appreciate some sample code.
Thanks!

Stefan Kühn
([e-mail])

[aragorn94]

I think the problem is that you want to send an email, seeing your code :
tmpTransport.send(msg);
and msg contains them mail you want to send.

But pop3 is a protocol to read mail you receipt.
If you really want to receive mail, you should code
something like tmpTransport.receive(...);
i'd never write a pop3 reader

The good protocol to send a mail should be 'smtp',
so you should code :
Transport tmpTransport = session.getTransport("smtp");

That the reason why you have the message 'Invalid provider'

Hope this help you