Sending Webpage thru Java Mail

Dear Ranchers

I have been assigned to make a small program for "Email Notification System" with the images and texts are coming from mysql database. This is used for sales promotion and stuffs like that. Some times attachments also has to be there... I have prepared a code snippet and below is the information. But when i run the code without any images in the background, the email is working so perfectly. The moment, when i put the images code (html part), the email recieved is with blank pages. Kindly let me know how best i can sort out the below issue with your enriched knowledge.

import java.util.*;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
import javax.activation.*;

class SendAttachment{
 public static void main(String [] args){

String to="xxx@xxx.com";//change accordingly
  final String user="xxx@xxx.com";//change accordingly
  final String password="xxx";//change accordingly

//1) get the session object
  Properties properties = System.getProperties();
  properties.setProperty("mail.smtp.host", "mail.xxx.com");//change accordingly
  properties.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");

Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(properties,
   new javax.mail.Authenticator() {
   protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
   return new PasswordAuthentication(user,password);
   }
  });

//2) compose message
  try{
    MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
    message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(user));
    message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO,new InternetAddress(to));
    message.setSubject("TEST MAIL");
    //message.setContent("<h1>sending html mail check</h1>","text/html" );

//3) create MimeBodyPart object and set your message content
    BodyPart messageBodyPart1 = new MimeBodyPart();
    //messageBodyPart1.setContent( "<body bgcolor=red><H1>This is a test message from java</H1>", "text/html; charset=utf-8" );
   messageBodyPart1.setContent( "<html><body bgcolor=#FFFFFF leftmargin=0 topmargin=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0><table     border=0  ><tr><td    ></td></tr><tr><td   ></td><td   ></td><td   ></td></tr><tr><td    ></td></tr></table></body></html>", "text/html; charset=utf-8" );
    //messageBodyPart1.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/html");
    //messageBodyPart1.setText("This is a test message from java");

//4) create new MimeBodyPart object and set DataHandler object to this object
    MimeBodyPart messageBodyPart2 = new MimeBodyPart();

String filename = "c:/abcd.pdf";//change accordingly
    DataSource source = new FileDataSource(filename);
    messageBodyPart2.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(source));
    messageBodyPart2.setFileName(filename);
    //messageBodyPart2.setContent( "This is a test message from java", "text/html; charset=utf-8" );

//5) create Multipart object and add MimeBodyPart objects to this object
    Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart();
    multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart1);
    multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart2);

//6) set the multiplart object to the message object
    message.setContent(multipart );

//7) send message
    Transport.send(message);

System.out.println("message sent....");
   }catch (MessagingException ex) {ex.printStackTrace();}
 }
}

Thanks/Regards

Aravind Prasad

The moment, when i put the images code (html part), the email recieved is with blank pages.

As far as I can tell, the HTML *is* blank, since it contains no content. Which part of the HTML do you think should produce something non-blank?

Sorry the code was not coming out well. Here it is, only the html part i am putting now.

messageBodyPart1.setContent( "<html><body bgcolor=#FFFFFF leftmargin=0 topmargin=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>

</body></html>", "text/html; charset=utf-8" );

Regards / Aravind

It is not actually sending the html tag. May be a limitation in the webpage.

I am sending the screen shot of the same.

Regards / Aravind

The images are relative to the HTML document, but inside an email client, this stops working.

There are two ways of including images in HTML emails:
1) Embed them. I'd suggest using Apache Commons Email for doing this. However, I think this won't work with background images.
2) Use absolute URLs to some web server. However, most clients block these images by default. You can't work around this, it's a client setting.

So I'm afraid what you want isn't going to work the way you want. You should consider reworking the HTML to use IMG tags instead of background URLs, and then embedding the images.