About JAVA MAIL

[CATS]

Hi all,
I am testing the JavaMail codes writing in JSP using Tomcat 1.4.1 for local test, and Using Windows 2000 professional platform , and one of the tasks that I should do is to send emails and receive the emails(reading emails from MS Outlook), but the problem that exists is as the following :
it get the following exception :
javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: no further information

If my compnay has a mail server for intranet, do i have to install a mail server on my local machine?

Note: I am using JavaMail 1.2 for connecting, sending, and receiving the emails from the MS Outlook.
THANKS IN ADVANCE!!

[Andres Gonzalez]

well.. are you allowed to use the SMTP server? I know you're under an intranet, but you might want to check with your SA if you have enough privileges.
[ June 14, 2003: Message edited by: Andres Gonzalez ]

[Vijay Gopalakrishnan]

You can use localhost as smtp server only if you have a SMTP server installed in your machine.
But to send mails you can use the smtp server of your company and no need to have your own.