Trying to send e-mail using JavaMail, JBoss 5, and JNDI

[socal_javaguy]

Hello there,

Am using JBoss 5.1.0GA and JDK 1.5.0_19 on OS X Leopard.

Created a working [SendMailServlet|http://tinyurl.com/SendMailServletCode].

Have now decided to refactor it into two separate classes (extract out JavaMail code to a separate class and create a ServletController).

Am also trying to use JNDI to access the connection properties in the mail-service.xml configuration file residing in JBoss.

The Mailer class contains the reusable functionality needed to send an e-mail:

public class Mailer {
 private Session mailSession;

 protected void sendMsg(String email, String subject, String body)
 throws MessagingException, NamingException {
 Properties props = new Properties();
 InitialContext ictx = new InitialContext(props);
 Session mailSession = (Session) ictx.lookup("java:/Mail");
// Session mailSessoin = Session.getDefaultInstance(props);
 String username = (String) props.get("mail.smtps.user");
 String password = (String) props.get("mail.smtps.password");

 MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(mailSession);
 message.setSubject(subject);
 message.setRecipients(javax.mail.Message.RecipientType.TO,
 javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress.parse(email, false));
 message.setText(body);
 message.saveChanges();

 Transport transport = mailSession.getTransport("smtps");
 try {
 transport.connect(username, password);
 transport.sendMessage(message, message.getAllRecipients());
 Logger.getLogger(this.getClass()).warn("Message sent");
 }
 finally {
 transport.close();
 }
 }
}

The MailController class serves as a standard Java Servlet which invokes the Mailer.class's sendMsg() method:

public class MailController extends HttpServlet {
 /** static final HTML setting for content type */
 private static final String HTML = "text/html";

 myapp/** static final HTML setting for content type */
 private static final String PLAIN = "text/plain";

 public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
 throws ServletException, IOException {
 doPost(request, response);
 }

 public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
 throws ServletException, IOException {
 response.setContentType(PLAIN);
 PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
 String mailToken = TokenUtil.getEncryptedKey();
 String body = "Hello there, " + "\n\n"
 + "Wanna play a game of golf?" + "\n\n"
 + "Please confirm: https://localhost:8443/myapp/confirm?token="
 + mailToken + "\n\n" + "-Golf USA";
 Mailer mailer = new Mailer();
 try {
 mailer.sendMsg("[e-mail]", "Golf Invitation!", body);
 out.println("Message Sent");
 }
 catch (MessagingException e) {
 e.printStackTrace();
 }
 catch (NamingException e) {
 e.printStackTrace();
 }
 }
}

Have the mail configuration set under $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/mail-service.xml:

<server>
 <mbean code="org.jboss.mail.MailService" name="jboss:service=Mail">
 <attribute name="JNDIName">java:/Mail</attribute>
 <attribute name="User">user</attribute>
 <attribute name="Password">password</attribute>
 <attribute name="Configuration">
 <configuration>
 <property name="mail.store.protocol" value="pop3"/>
 <property name="mail.transport.protocol" value="smtp"/>
 <property name="mail.user" value="user"/>
 <property name="mail.pop3.host" value="pop3.gmail.com"/>
 <property name="mail.smtp.host" value="smtp.gmail.com"/>
 <property name="mail.smtp.port" value="25"/>
 <property name="mail.from" value="[e-mail]"/>
 <property name="mail.debug" value="true"/>
 </configuration>
 </attribute>
 <depends>jboss:service=Naming</depends>
 </mbean>
</server>

web.xml (Deployment Descriptor):

<servlet>
 <servlet-name>MailController</servlet-name>
 <servlet-class>com.myapp.MailController</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>MailController</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>/sendmail</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

This is what is outputted when I start JBOSS and click point my browser to:

https://localhost:8443/myapp/sendmail

[MailService] Mail Service bound to java:/Mail

[STDOUT] DEBUG: JavaMail version 1.4ea
[STDOUT] DEBUG: java.io.FileNotFoundException:

/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/lib/javamail.providers
(No such file or directory)

[STDOUT] DEBUG: !anyLoaded
[STDOUT] DEBUG: not loading resource: /META-INF/javamail.providers
[STDOUT] DEBUG: successfully loaded resource: /META-INF/javamail.default.providers

[STDOUT] DEBUG: getProvider() returning
javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtps,com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSSLTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc]

[STDOUT] DEBUG SMTP: useEhlo true, useAuth false
[STDOUT] DEBUG SMTP: trying to connect to host "localhost", port 465, isSSL true

[STDERR] javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 465;
 nested exception is:
 java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
[STDERR] at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1282)
[STDERR] at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:370)
[STDERR] at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:275)
[STDERR] at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:156)
[STDERR] at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:176)
[STDERR] at com.myapp.Mailer.sendMsg(Mailer.java:45)
[STDERR] at com.myapp.MailController.doPost(MailController.java:42)
[STDERR] at com.myapp.MailController.doGet(MailController.java:26)

Why am I getting this java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused exception?

Happy programming,

Mike