Hi Gary,
Sorry, I don't know how to get around the authentication issue.
Thanks,
Sahoo
Gary Horton wrote:
> 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
>>