Sending Emails in Java using GMail ID
Thought of sharing following code with you all. It is a small code snippet that uses SMTP in Java to login into GMail and send email using ones GMail account. 
Code language: Java (java)
String host = “smtp.gmail.com”; String from = “username”; String pass = “password”; Properties props = System.getProperties(); props.put(“mail.smtp.starttls.enable”, “true”); // added this line props.put(“mail.smtp.host”, host); props.put(“mail.smtp.user”, from); props.put(“mail.smtp.password”, pass); props.put(“mail.smtp.port”, “587”); props.put(“mail.smtp.auth”, “true”); String[] to = {“to@gmail.com”}; // added this line Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null); MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session); message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from)); InternetAddress[] toAddress = new InternetAddress[to.length]; // To get the array of addresses for( int i=0; i

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  • hey thanks for the Code dear.. its Totally workin nd onw thin is that I was lookin for this thisn since a long time but here i got the Perfect code that is Workin so that thanks a lot.. ! Take care Bye Bye

  • Thanks a lot for the snippet, works great. Was looking something like that for my project, you saved my time.

  • I'm trying to run this snippet but got the following Exception
    Please help me:-

    javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.mail.MessagingException: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. u2sm14732770pbq.9

    org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:852)
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:781)
    org.apache.jsp.test_005fmail.send_jsp._jspService(send_jsp.java:133)
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
    com.vtr.globarena.URLCheckFilter.doFilter(URLCheckFilter.java:175)
    org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:390)

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15 years ago

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