error in retrieving mail through a proxy.

we are retrieving mail from gmail server.we could connect to the gmail server without proxy. As there is a proxy setting in our college we couldn't connect to the gmailserver even after setting the system properties. we could connect to gmail.com from our browser but we couldn't connect from our program.

please help!

Gayathri,

Please not the code tags are [code] and not <code>. Or you can use the Code button.
We have a forum dedicated for java mail. I will move this thread there for you.

What error did you get when you say [i]"we couldn't connect to the gmailserver"[i]. Can you post the stack trace?
Is there any firewall blocking the port?

we get this exception

java.net.UnknownHostException: imap.gmail.com
at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore.protocolConnect(IMAPStore.java:618)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:291)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:172)
at EmailClient.connect(EmailClient.java:373)
at EmailClient.main(EmailClient.java:475)
by: java.net.UnknownHostException: imap.gmail.com
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.BaseSSLSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source

at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.createSocket(SocketFetcher.java:284)
at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.getSocket(SocketFetcher.java:201)
at com.sun.mail.iap.Protocol.<init>(Protocol.java:109)
at com.sun.mail.imap.protocol.IMAPProtocol.<init>(IMAPProtocol.java:104)

at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore.protocolConnect(IMAPStore.java:585)

From the browser you connect via HTTP. So an HTTP proxy works for that. From your program you don't connect via HTTP. So an HTTP proxy doesn't work for that.

You would have to talk to the network administrators at your college to get them to open up port 993 for you.