error sending email to hotmail account

[Damanjit Kaur]

Hi

I am having following problem in my program to send email to a hotmail account:

DEBUG: getProvider() returning javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtp,com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc]
DEBUG SMTP: useEhlo true, useAuth true
DEBUG SMTP: trying to connect to host "mail.hotmail.com", port 25, isSSL false
javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: mail.hotmail.com, port: 25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect

In program code I am using

String mailhost="mail.hotmail.com";

Can anyone suggest why I am not able to connect to hotmail smtp server.

thanks

[Ben Wood]

Maybe Hotmail don't want you to use their server to send emails.

[Damanjit Kaur]

ya I also felt that. Can you suggest some solution to my another latest problem.

Now I have installed free SMTP server and using that to send emails directly from my program. So I specify 'localhost' as mail server for sending emails thru this server.

and I get the following error though I don't get this error when I use smtp server of my office. so I know the recipient is right.

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550 Invalid recipient: [e-mail]
com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 550 Invalid recipient: [e-mail]
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I was reading in the documentation of this free SMTP server it states :

Be aware that that some ISPs close the SMTP port #25 forcing you to use only their SMTP server. You must be sure the port #25 is available for your ISP before using the program.

What does this mean?

Thanks

[Kee Kong Sim]

usually u can't send email to yahoo or hotmail (I mean those big and organized mail system) using ur own programme. This is to prevent spam and hack.

so try ur luck on a small/private/less security mail server.