How to configure a mail service in JBoss 7

[ohmygod]

In old jboss (version 4), there is a mail-service.xml to configure mail service like pop3 port and smtp port as following:

  <mbean code="org.jboss.mail.MailService"
         name="jboss:service=Mail">
    <attribute name="JNDIName">java:/Mail</attribute>
    <attribute name="User">nobody</attribute>
    <attribute name="Password">password</attribute>
    <attribute name="Configuration">
      <!-- A test configuration -->
      <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="smtp.nosuchhost.nosuchdomain.com"/>
        
        <!-- The mail server port -->
        <property name="mail.smtp.port" value="25"/>
        
        <!-- Change to the address mail will be from  -->
        <property name="mail.from" value="[e-mail]"/>


        <!-- Enable debugging output from the javamail classes -->
        <property name="mail.debug" value="false"/>
      </configuration>
    </attribute>
    <depends>jboss:service=Naming</depends>
  </mbean>

Currently I want to configure these attributes in JBoss 7.1.1.Final. I searched the documentation in JBoss as 7 but cannot find anything about this. And in standalone-full.xml I only found this piece of setting on mail.

<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:mail:1.0">
            <mail-session jndi-name="java:jboss/mail/Default">
                <smtp-server outbound-socket-binding-ref="mail-smtp"/>
            </mail-session>
        </subsystem>

Can someone tell me some more?

[ctomc]

Hi,

configuration of mail subsystem is done more structured way rather than just providing bunch of properties that system cannot understand and manage.

in any case i think this full blown example would help you out:

<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:mail:1.0">

    <mail-session jndi-name="java:/Mail" from="user dot name at domain dot tld">

        <smtp-server outbound-socket-binding-ref="mail-smtp" ssl="true">

            <login name="nobody" password="pass"/>

        </smtp-server>

        <pop3-server outbound-socket-binding-ref="mail-pop3"/>

        <imap-server outbound-socket-binding-ref="mail-imap">

            <login name="nobody" password="pass"/>

        </imap-server>

    </mail-session>

    <mail-session debug="true" jndi-name="java:jboss/mail/Default">

        <smtp-server outbound-socket-binding-ref="mail-smtp"/>

    </mail-session>

</subsystem>

in general you have to specify what kind of server are you configuring and outbound-socket-binding-ref, this are defined globaly at the end of configuration (just look for mail-smtp in standalone-full.xml)

you can also set optional information about login info and/or server requres secure connection(ssl=true)

hope this helps

--

tomaz

[ohmygod]

Thanks tomaz, I will have a try. Seems good

[ohmygod]

Hi tomaz, another question, how to configure an ssl protocal like, smtps? Or can you tell me all the optional attributes that can be configured?

[ctomc]

Hi,

simple just define smtp and specify ssl=true

<smtp-server outbound-socket-binding-ref="mail-smtp" ssl="true">

       <login name="nobody" password="pass"/>

</smtp-server>

--

tomaz

[ohmygod]

Hi Tomaz, can you also provide some code sample for the new mail service configuration in JBoss 7?

In older version JBoss, my code is like following. But I found in JBoss 7, using below code will report error like

10:33:56,019 ERROR [com.demo.util.mail.MailSender] (Thread-65 (HornetQ-client-global-threads-200946616)) Error getting email authentication parameters: 
com.demo.util.mail.MailerException: Mail -- service jboss.naming.context.java.Mail

After debugging, the real exception is

javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Mail -- service jboss.naming.context.java.Mail

Code:

Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
javax.mail.Session session = (Session) initCtx.lookup("java:/Mail");

String transportProtocol = session.getProperty("mail.transport.protocol");
String mailServer = session.getProperty("mail.smtp.host");
String mailUser = session.getProperty("mail.smtp.user");

[ohmygod]

Changging the jndi name to "java:jboss/mail/Default" makes it work. Thanks again for the advice.