sending an e-mail

[Anonymous]

Hi everybody!
I'm having some troubles with sending an e-mail from a servlet I have running on Tomcat 3.3 and Solaris.
The servlet uses Java Mail API to send an e-mail, but when I press the button to send the e-mail this error appear on console and the mail is not sended:
javax.mail.NoSuchProviderException: No provider for Address type: rfc822

Could you tell me why does this message appear? and How can I fix it?
Thank you in advance!!
Nancy.

[Mike Curwen]

This usually means that you do not have the SMTP provider in the classpath.

One thing to check is that you have the latest mail.jar and activation.jar

[Anonymous]

Thank you Mike,
But since I tried to send the mail at first, I had already added the activation.jar, mail.jar and pop3.jar in the classpath of the .profile file, so I don't know why I can't send the mail if I have all this libraries...

Could you help me?
Thanks again.
Nancy.

[Mike Curwen]

Place those jar files in your /usr/local/tomcat/lib directory and see if it helps. (It might not be /usr/local/, but I'm sure you get the idea.

If you are using *your* (you, a user) profile and compiling, running under that profile, maybe Tomcat is running as root (or hopefully some other user). So place the jars where Tomcat can always find them.
[ January 31, 2002: Message edited by: Mike Curwen ]