How to Send an Email from a Java App in JBoss

[mduffy_lists]

Can anyone tell me how to configure the resource params for a mail server?

[javierdajabon]

Here is what my configuration file looks like. I think the only thing I had to change to make it work was to specify my company's smtp server name. I am not sure if you could do just that too, that is, I don't know if you may need to specify a valid user name/password as well.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE server>
<!-- $Id: mail-service.xml,v 1.4 2002/06/01 02:06:46 starksm Exp $ -->
<server>
 <classpath codebase="lib" archives="mail.jar, activation.jar, mail-plugin.jar"/>
 <!-- ==================================================================== -->
 <!-- Mail Connection Factory -->
 <!-- ==================================================================== -->
 <mbean code="org.jboss.mail.MailService" name="jboss:service=Mail">
 <attribute name="JNDIName">java:/MailService</attribute>
 <attribute name="User">value</attribute>
 <attribute name="Password">value</attribute>
 <attribute name="Configuration">
 <!-- Test -->
 <configuration>
 <!-- Change to your mail server prototocol -->
 <property name="mail.store.protocol" value="pop3"/>
 <property name="mail.transport.protocol" value="smtp"/>
 <!-- Change to the user who will receive mail -->
 <property name="mail.user" value="nobody"/>
 <!-- Change to the mail server -->
 <property name="mail.pop3.host" value="pop3.nosuchhost.nosuchdomain.com"/>
 <!-- Change to the SMTP gateway server -->
 <property name="mail.smtp.host" value="yoursmtpserver.com"/>
 <!-- Change to the address mail will be from -->
 <property name="mail.from" value="JBossMailService"/>
 <!-- Enable debugging output from the javamail classes -->
 <property name="mail.debug" value="false"/>
 </configuration>
 </attribute>
 </mbean>
</server>

Hope this helps
Javier

[mduffy_lists]

Thx.

Were there any parameters that needed to be set in the web.xml?

Mike

[javierdajabon]

Mike,
Actually in my case I am not sending email from a web application so I do not have a web.xml. I created a simple Message Driven Bean which is listening to a queue. Each entry that arrives in this queue is an email that needs to be sent. In my MDB I just do a JNDI lookup to get a reference to the mail session and then send the email. You could basically send email in a similar manner as I am doing it by just deploying the mail-service.xml file and then doing lookups from a servlet or a helper class. You could do that even without having to declare anything in your web.xml. In case you need it, here is some sample code.

Session mailSession = (Session)jndiContext.lookup("java:/MailService");
MimeMessage mimeMessage = new MimeMessage(mailSession);
mimeMessage.setFrom();
etc..

Given the mail-service.xml I posted earlier, MailService would be bound to JNDI and it will return a session to you when you do a look up.

Javier