How send an automatic mail through my servlet

[Paul Okeke]

I want a situation where by, on submittion of a form.
My servlet will automatically send the user a confirmatory email

[Lester Burnham]

The Java API for sending mail is called JavaMail. See the JavaEnterpriseEditionFaq for links to an extensive tutorial with many code examples. You'll need access to a mail server.

[vijin das]

Paul Okeke wrote:I want a situation where by, on submittion of a form.
My servlet will automatically send the user a confirmatory email

after submiting the form you will get the details in your servlet ....if you want to make any db operations do it first ...then just call a method of a helper class which will send mail for using java mail API ...

also send the values you had taken from form to the method through arguments (like mySendMailFunction(name,age,location))
take these values in your helper method and do the reaming coding ..for that just check the below link

samplecode

[Paul Okeke]

thanks a lot for that response!
But please, can you help me with a download link to that source?
Or any other source that will guide on the use of Java Mail API.

[Andrew Monkhouse]

Paul Okeke wrote:But please, can you help me with a download link to that source?

Lester pointed you to the JavaEnterpriseEditionFaq - if you look in there you will find links to the JavaMail Home page, the FAQ, Introduction, tutorials, and much more.

[Paul Okeke]

Thanks once again. I will check it out.

[rewati raman]

after submiting the form you will get the details in your servlet ....if you want to make any db operations do it first .. then as was told earlier call a method or a simple pojo method to send an email. you can do it using socket and smtp. that will work.

[sarath j nair]

import java.security.Security;
import java.util.Properties;

import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.PasswordAuthentication;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Transport;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;

public class GoogleTest {

private static final String SMTP_HOST_NAME = "smtp.gmail.com";
private static final String SMTP_PORT = "465";

private static final String SSL_FACTORY = "javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory";


/*public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {

Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());

new GoogleTest().sendSSLMessage(sendTo, emailSubjectTxt,emailMsgTxt, emailFromAddress);
System.out.println("Sucessfully Sent mail to All Users");
}*/

public void sendSSLMessage(String recipients, String subject,
String message, String from) throws MessagingException {
boolean debug = true;

Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("mail.smtp.host", SMTP_HOST_NAME);
props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
props.put("mail.debug", "true");
props.put("mail.smtp.port", SMTP_PORT);
props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", SMTP_PORT);
props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class", SSL_FACTORY);
props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback", "false");

Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props,
new javax.mail.Authenticator() {

protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return new PasswordAuthentication("GMAIL ID", "PASSWORD");
}
});

session.setDebug(debug);

Message msg = new MimeMessage(session);
InternetAddress addressFrom = new InternetAddress(from);
msg.setFrom(addressFrom);

InternetAddress addressTo = new InternetAddress();
addressTo = new InternetAddress(recipients);
msg.setRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, addressTo);

// Setting the Subject and Content Type
msg.setSubject(subject);
msg.setContent(message, "text/plain");
Transport.send(msg);
}
}

Use two main Jar files activation.jar, mail.jar