spring javamailproperties mail.smtp.from not working

[Shilpa Tendulkar]

Hello,

I've been trying to smtp.from properties for bounced mails but there is no luck. I dont see any errors. I have set debug to true which does show me from addres but mail is not sent to that address. I'm using fake email id which I know will bounced.
my bean properties are

<bean id="MailSender" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl">
        <property name="host" value="${MAIL_HOST}"/>
        <property name="port" value="${MAIL_PORT}"/>
         <property name="javaMailProperties">
          <props>
              <prop key="mail.debug">true</prop> 
               <prop key="mail.transport.protocol">smtp</prop>
                <prop key="mail.smtp.starttls.enable">true</prop>
           <prop key="mail.smtp.from">[e-mail]</prop>
          </props>
        </property>
    </bean>

[b] mail sender is [/b]

public void sendMail(final MailBean p_mailBean) {
        MimeMessagePreparator l_preparator = new MimeMessagePreparator() {

            public void prepare(MimeMessage p_msg) throws Exception {
     
                p_msg.setRecipient(RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(p_mailBean.getRecipient()));
                if (p_mailBean.getFrom() != null && !"".equals(p_mailBean.getFrom())) {
                    p_msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(p_mailBean.getFrom()));
                } else {
                    p_msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(getFromAddress()));
                }
                p_msg.setSubject(p_mailBean.getSubject());
                p_msg.setContent(p_mailBean.getText(), "text/html");   

            }
        };
        try {
            this.mailSender.send(l_preparator);
        } catch (MailException me) {
            System.out.println("exception occurred");
            me.printStackTrace();
            //Doesn't rethrow the exception
            logger.error("Error sending mail to " + p_mailBean.getRecipient(), me);
            logger.error(StackTraceHandler.getTrace(me));
        }
    }

Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you.

[Mark Spritzler]

Have you stepped through the code with your debugger to see exactly what is happening?

Mark

[Shilpa Tendulkar]

Thanks for reply. I did debug it but cant see anything which can highight the problem. Debug shows following information; in this MAIL FROM is set to desire bouced address but mail is not sent to this address. Is there somehing I need to do diffrently? Thanks.

EHLO sd-desktop
250-mail.abc.co.uk Hello [10.1.3.81]
250-TURN
250-SIZE
250-ETRN
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8bitmime
250-BINARYMIME
250-CHUNKING
250-VRFY
250-X-EXPS GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN
250-X-EXPS=LOGIN
250-AUTH GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN
250-X-LINK2STATE
250-XEXCH50
250 OK
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "TURN", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "SIZE", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "ETRN", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "PIPELINING", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "DSN", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "8bitmime", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "BINARYMIME", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "CHUNKING", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "VRFY", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "X-EXPS", arg "GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN"
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "X-EXPS=LOGIN", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "AUTH", arg "GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN"
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "AUTH=LOGIN", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "X-LINK2STATE", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "XEXCH50", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: Found extension "OK", arg ""
DEBUG SMTP: use8bit false
MAIL FROM:<[e-mail]>
250 2.1.0 [e-mail]....Sender OK
RCPT TO:<[e-mail]>
250 2.1.5 [e-mail] 
DEBUG SMTP: Verified Addresses
DEBUG SMTP:   [e-mail]
DATA
354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 14:38:57 +0100 (BST)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Message-ID: <104870084.0.1349444337999.JavaMail.sd@sd-desktop>
Subject: New Access Account (Id 29414)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I changed bean properties little bit, now mail is sent but when its bounced its not going to the bounced address (mail.smtp.from) address but its going to "from" address from mail.

 <!--Mailer -->
    <bean id="MailSender" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl">
        <property name="host" value="${MAIL_HOST}"/>
        <property name="port" value="${MAIL_PORT}"/>
        <property name="javaMailProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="mail.debug">true</prop>
                <prop key="mail.smtp.from">[e-mail]</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>

[Mark Spritzler]

Sorry, I am confused

" Debug shows following information;"

How does stepping through code produce printing information. I am talking about debugging where you manually step through your code in your IDE. I am not talking about logging. With debugging you can see every variable and what their current values are. Are you doing that or just logging?

Mark

[Shilpa Tendulkar]

Hi
I did debug; there is no exception and mail is sent successfully. its that, mail is being sent to "from" addressee instead of one mentioned in javaMailproperties (mail.smtp.from - I used this for bounced mails.) in bean settings. May be i'm not sure what should I look for when I debug this code.

[Mark Spritzler]

Shilpa Tendulkar wrote:Hi
I did debug; there is no exception and mail is sent successfully. its that, mail is being sent to "from" addressee instead of one mentioned in javaMailproperties (mail.smtp.from - I used this for bounced mails.) in bean settings. May be i'm not sure what should I look for when I debug this code.

When you step through your code, your IDE will show you variable values. So you can go into your mail object and see exactly what the To and From are set to, so you can see if you mistakenly put the wrong value into those properties. You don't necessarily step through code to see an error/exception produced.

Mark

[Mark Spritzler]

I would guess, cause I can't step through your code, is that you are setting the from to something else in code.

Maybe here?

if (p_mailBean.getFrom() != null && !"".equals(p_mailBean.getFrom())) {  
                    p_msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(p_mailBean.getFrom()));  
                } else {  
                    p_msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(getFromAddress()));  
                }

Mark

[Shilpa Tendulkar]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. yes. from address is diffrent from the one I used in mail.smtp.from because I want bounce mails to go to mail.smtp.from addres instead of going to "from" address in mail bean. Sorry if I was not clear on stating my problem.

I research through some posts on web, it seems you can set bounce address as mail.smtp.from and bounce mails will be notified to this address. Using spring, one need to specifiy smtp.from in javamailproperties in bean settings. As I'm investigating more on this, it seems, I need to set mail session in context and refer it in the bean properties as well. Do you have any idea on how to do this?

[Shilpa Tendulkar]

SOLVED

I'm glad I was able to resolved the problem. Task was to send bounce emails to another address than "from" address in the mail. I tried setting headers but apparently smtp server ignores it if error occurs. So solution was to set mail.smtp.from address in the javax.mail.session.
I followed these steps:

[b]create javax.mails session jndi ref. by adding this code to your web.xml[/b]
<resource-ref>
        <description>
            Resource reference to a factory for javax.mail.Session
            instances that may be used for sending electronic mail
            messages, preconfigured to connect to the appropriate
            SMTP server.
        </description>
        <res-ref-name>mail/session</res-ref-name>
        <res-type>javax.mail.Session</res-type>
        <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
    </resource-ref>

[b]spring support.xml or wherever your mailer bean setting is[/b]

<bean id="smtpSession" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
    <property name="jndiName" value="java:comp/env/mail/session"/>
  </bean>

  <bean id="MailSender" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl">
        <property name="host" value="${MAIL_HOST}"/>
        <property name="port" value="${MAIL_PORT}"/>
        <property name="session" ref="smtpSession"/>
    </bean>

[b]finally in mailer set smtpSession (I'm still not sure why you need to use session here if its already in MailSender)[/b]

<bean id="Mailer" class="comp.pack.web.support.Mailer">
        <property name="mailSender" ref="MailSender"/>
        <property name="fromAddress" value="${ADMIN_EMAIL}"/>
        <property name="smtpsession" ref="smtpSession"/>
    </bean>

[b]setting bounce address in Mailer.java[/b]

public class Mailer {

    private JavaMailSender mailSender;
    private Session smtpsession;
    private String fromAddress;
    private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Mailer.class);

    public void sendMail(final MailBean p_mailBean) {
        MimeMessagePreparator l_preparator = new MimeMessagePreparator() {

            public void prepare(MimeMessage p_msg) throws Exception {
                p_msg.setRecipient(RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(p_mailBean.getRecipient()));               
                p_msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(getFromAddress()));                
                p_msg.setSubject(p_mailBean.getSubject());
                p_msg.setContent(p_mailBean.getText(), "text/html");
            }
        };
        try {
            //override java mail properties in javax.session to set bounce address(envelope-sender)
            if (this.smtpsession != null) {
                String bounceAddress = getFromAddress();
                if (p_mailBean.getFrom() != null && !"".equals(p_mailBean.getFrom())) {
                    bounceAddress = p_mailBean.getFrom();
                }
                logger.debug("Bounce email address set to [ "+bounceAddress+" ] ");
                //set envelope-sender
                this.smtpsession.getProperties().setProperty("mail.smtp.from", bounceAddress);
            } else {
                logger.error("smtp session is null; bounce email address is not set");
            }
            this.mailSender.send(l_preparator);

        } catch (MailException me) {            
            //Doesn't rethrow the exception
            logger.error("Error sending mail to " + p_mailBean.getRecipient(), me);
            logger.error(StackTraceHandler.getTrace(me));
        }
    }
}

Also don't forget to copy or move mail.jar and activation.jar in tomcat/lib or tomcat/endorsed folder.


Hope this helps. If there are any chances of improving this solution please let me know. Thanks.

[Mark Spritzler]

Congrats on solving your issue. And thanks for posting your solution to help others out later.

Mark

[Shilpa Tendulkar]

SOLVED and SIMPLIFIED

Ignore session changes. In my case, you do not need to access session at all. All you have to do is set javaMailProperties in Mailer

in support.xml or wherever mail bean properties are set

  <!--Mailer -->  
  <bean id="MailSender" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl">
        <property name="host" value="${MAIL_HOST}"/>
        <property name="port" value="${MAIL_PORT}"/>
    </bean>
    <bean id="Mailer" class="mycomp.prj.web.support.Mailer">
        <property name="mailSender" ref="MailSender"/>
        <property name="fromAddress" value="${ADMIN_EMAIL}"/>
    </bean>

public class Mailer {

    private JavaMailSender mailSender;
    private Session smtpsession;
    private String fromAddress;
    private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Mailer.class);

    public void sendMail(final MailBean p_mailBean) {
        MimeMessagePreparator l_preparator = new MimeMessagePreparator() {

            public void prepare(MimeMessage p_msg) throws Exception {
                p_msg.setRecipient(RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(p_mailBean.getRecipient()));
                p_msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(getFromAddress()));
                p_msg.setSubject(p_mailBean.getSubject());
                p_msg.setContent(p_mailBean.getText(), "text/html");
            }
        };
        try {
            //override java mail properties in javax.session to set bounce address(envelope-sender)
            String bounceAddress = getFromAddress();
            JavaMailSenderImpl javaMailSenderImpl = (JavaMailSenderImpl) this.mailSender;
            Properties props = System.getProperties();
            if (p_mailBean.getFrom() != null && !"".equals(p_mailBean.getFrom())) {
                bounceAddress = p_mailBean.getFrom();
            }                        
            props.put("mail.smtp.from", bounceAddress);
            javaMailSenderImpl.setJavaMailProperties(props);

            logger.debug("Bounce email address set to [ " + bounceAddress + " ] ");
            //send mail
            this.mailSender.send(l_preparator);

        } catch (MailException me) {
            //Doesn't rethrow the exception
            logger.error("Error sending mail to " + p_mailBean.getRecipient(), me);
            logger.error(StackTraceHandler.getTrace(me));
        }
    }
}

This was so easy I couldnt understand how I missed it

Hope this will help.