Thanks Sahoo for the pointer. You are correct, this is a necessary step.
But, now I wonder how to get around an authentication issue - i.e. I
receive messages like "530 5.7.0 No AUTH command has been given". To get
around this, it appears I must use this type of approach (creating my
own Session):
Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("mail.smtp.host", host);
props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
Session sess = javax.mail.Session.getInstance(props, null);
Message msg = new MimeMessage(sess);
msg.setFrom(from);
msg.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, to);
msg.setSubject(subj);
msg.setSentDate(new Date());
msg.setText(body);
Transport t = null;
try {
t = sess.getTransport("smtp");
t.connect(user, password);
t.sendMessage(msg, msg.getAllRecipients());
this.logger.info("message sent!");
} finally {
t.close();
}
But this has two downsides, (1) I have to maintain and encrypt or
otherwise protect the password and (2) now I'm not leveraging the
container, I'm just using a standalone javamail session. Am I
misunderstanding something? I've also tried this without success, where
the session was obtained via the container:
session.setPasswordAuthentication(
new URLName("smtp://mail-amer.sun.com"),
new PasswordAuthentication(info.getUserName(), password));
Transport t = session.getTransport(protocol);
try {
t.connect();
t.sendMessage(message, message.getAllRecipients());
} finally {
t.close();
}
But still no luck.
Thanks Sahoo (and/or anyone else who wants to help) -
-gh
Sahoo wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> You should first define a resource reference and associate the JNDI name
> with the resource reference. In your code, you should use the resource
> reference. Here are a couple of ways of doing this:
>
> 1. Using web.xml:
> ------------------------
> Add the following lines to your web.xml:
> <!-- Here the name of the resource reference is mail/foo and it is
> associated with the MailSession with global JNDI name as
> mail/awardsNotification-->
> <resource-ref>
> <res-ref-name>mail/foo</res-ref-name>
> <res-type>javax.mail.Session</res-type>
> <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
> <res-sharing-scope>Shareable</res-sharing-scope>
> <mapped-name>mail/awardsNotification</mapped-name>
> </resource-ref>
>
> Now your code looks like this:
>
> javax.mail.Session s = (javax.mail.Session) new
> InitialContext("java:comp/env/mail/foo");
>
> 2. Using dependency injection:
> ---------------------------------------
> If you are using Java EE 5 features, then you don't have to worry about
> web.xml or JNDI look up. Simply write the following line in your Servlet
> or managed web component:
> @Resource(name="mail/foo", mappedName="mail/awardsNotification")
> private javax.mail.Session s;
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Thanks,
> Sahoo
>
> p.s.:
> A complete Java EE application that uses Mail session is available at
> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ss141213/foss_2006_demo/VisitorRegistration_src.zip.
>
> Unzip and take a look at VisitorRegistrationService.java, which uses
> resource injection to inject a mail session. The injected Session is
> used inside sendMail() in that EJB. The application is described at
> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ss141213/archive/2006/11/welcome_to_glas.html.
>
> The injection code and sendMail() should also work for a web app with
> version > 2.5.
>
>
> Gary Horton wrote:
>> Ken Paulsen has pointed me here to ask for help wrt correctly setting
>> up a JavaMail session in glassfish. I have set up the session, but
>> cannot successfully locate the resource using JNDI.
>>
>> My goal is to send out a simple text message via javamail from my
>> webapp, deployed to glassfish. From reading the Admin manual
>> (http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-3658/6n5s5nkm4?a=view), I
>> configure JavaMail sessions with the following JNDI names:
>>
>> comp/env/mail/awardsNotification
>> mail/awardsNotification
>> awardsNotification
>>
>> I used several variations because my initial attempt using just
>> the 1st one (comp/env/mail/awardsNotification) didn't work out, so I
>> thought I must have been approaching the naming incorrectly.
>>
>> I then put together some test code that in effect does what the
>> glassfish manual describes
>> (https://glassfish.dev.java.net/javaee5/docs/DG/beaow.html):
>>
>> private Session getMailSession(String jndiName) {
>> try {
>> InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
>> logger.info(jndiName + "...");
>> Session session = (Session)ic.lookup(jndiName);
>> logger.info("Success!");
>> return session;
>> } catch (Exception ex) {
>> this.logger.error("Failed: " + ex);
>> return null;
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Then I try it out finding any of the 3 JNDI resources with each of
>> the following JNDI name arguments, but they all fail. Here are the
>> arguments sent to the above method:
>>
>> 1. mail:comp/env/mail/awardsNotification
>> 2. java:comp/env/mail/awardsNotification
>> 3. java:mail/awardsNotification
>> 4. mail:mail/awardsNotification
>> 5. comp/env/mail/awardsNotification
>> 6. mail/awardsNotification
>> 7. mail:awardsNotification
>> 8. awardsNotification
>>
>> The output generated from these tests tell me, when I use #5, #6 or
>> #8, that I'm getting back a MailConfiguration object instead of a
>> Session object. I believe this is the problem, but I have no clue
>> how to remedy this.
>>
>> Here's the detailed output from invoking the getMailSession method
>> with the above arguments:
>>
>> 1. mail:comp/env/mail/awardsNotification...Failed: null
>> 2. java:comp/env/mail/awardsNotification...Failed: No object bound
>> to name java:comp/env/mail/awardsNotification
>> 3. java:mail/awardsNotification...Failed: No object bound to name
>> java:mail/awardsNotification
>> 4. mail:mail/awardsNotification...Failed: null
>> 5. comp/env/mail/awardsNotification...Failed:
>> java.lang.ClassCastException:
>> com.sun.enterprise.deployment.MailConfiguration
>> 6. mail/awardsNotification...Failed: java.lang.ClassCastException:
>> 7. mail:awardsNotification...Failed: mail:awardsNotification not
>> found
>> 8. awardsNotification...Failed: java.lang.ClassCastException:
>> com.sun.enterprise.deployment.MailConfiguration
>>
>> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance - and if
>> you would, please cc me in your reply, since I'm not on this alias --
>> -gh
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