Automatic sending of email

[Ådne Brunborg]

In my current project, there is a method for automatic sending of email messages. I need to expand this method to attach a file, and there is no "addAttachment" method on javax.mail.Message or javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage

public class MailSender extends Thread {
//stuff
public void run() {
try {
Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("mail.smtp.host", propertiesHelper.getProperty(PropertiesNames.GENERAL_MAIL_SERVER));
javax.mail.Session session = javax.mail.Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
Message msg = new MimeMessage(session);
//setting content, address, etc on msg
Transport.send(msg);
} catch (Exception ex) {
logger.error(ex);
}
}

[Paul Sturrock]

Mime messages are made up of parts, so you don't add an attachement to the message, rather you create a part that is a file. For example:

BodyPart part = new MimeBodyPart();
DataSource file = new FileDataSource("file_name");
part.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(file));
part.setFileName("file_name");
multipart.addBodyPart(part);

[ November 15, 2006: Message edited by: Paul Sturrock ]

[Ådne Brunborg]

Thank you