How to configure localhost to send email.

[malik ge]

Hi,

I want to send email from localhost through javamail.

I am able to send the mail through Google smtp. Now I want to send it through localhost.

I have found out that there is a "James open source Java server" for sending email.
But I could not find any help on how to configure it.

I am using NetBeans and Tomcat7.0

any help...

Thanks

[Paul Clapham]

That's because only people who understand how Internet e-mail works, and more specifically what trouble you can cause by starting up a badly-secured SMTP server, should be doing that. I suspect that you don't; if you did then you would be likely to be able to look at the package and figure out how to set it up. So I recommend you not to set up your own mail server yet.

[malik ge]

Well I agree with you.
But I want to do this only for test purposes.

Here is the code through which I can sent mail through gmail smtp,

if someone could tell me, anything about localhost smpt server that would be helpful.
I don't know which port or smtp host James java server use.

package com.email;
 
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 SendMailSSL {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Properties props = new Properties();
		props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
		props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", "465");
		props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class",
				"javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory");
		props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
		props.put("mail.smtp.port", "465");
 
		Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props,
			new javax.mail.Authenticator() {
				protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
					return new PasswordAuthentication("Gmail_userName","Gmail_password");
				}
			});
 
		try {
 
			Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
			message.setFrom(new InternetAddress("[e-mail]"));
			message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO,
					InternetAddress.parse("[e-mail]"));
			message.setSubject("Testing Subject");
			message.setText("Hello this is not spam," +
					"\n\n This is a JavaMail test...!");
 
			Transport.send(message);
 
			System.out.println("Done");
 
		} catch (MessagingException e) {
			throw new RuntimeException(e);
		}
	}
}

[malik ge]

Any help...

[Bear Bibeault]

Are you lucky enough to be on a Mac? If so, you can just use the built-in postfix mailer. Start it with:

sudo postfix start

If you're on Windows, I don't have any suggestions.

[Ulf Dittmer]

What, specifically. are you looking for that isn't covered somewhere around http://james.apache.org/server/2/index.html ?