Cannot Upload a file from local system

Question

Hi,
I am trying to send an email with an attachment from an JSP form using javamail in a STRUTS action class.
I uploaded the JSP form and action class to my web server (Unix with JBOSS) and now the email is not sent and I receive the following error
javax.mail.MessagingException: IOException while sending message;
nested exception is:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: testFile.txt (No such file or directory)
I am assuming that there is something different about the way my web server handles file attachments but I can't find any information about how to fix the problem. When i sent a blank msg without any attachment it is working fine.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Following is the code that i wrote in Action class to upload an attachment
Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart();
multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);
messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
DataSource source = new FileDataSource(dataFile.toString());
messageBodyPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(source));
messageBodyPart.setFileName(dataFile.getFileName());
multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);
msg.setContent(multipart);
Transport transport = session.getTransport("smtp");
transport.connect("host", port,"null","null");
if(transport.isConnected())
transport.sendMessage(msg, new Address[] {new InternetAddress(from));
}Thanks
Dinesh.

Answer 1

DrClap is right about using the correct pathname to the file, but...
At any
rate, rather than leaving this to chance, just give
the complete path name of the file to the data
handler:messageBodyPart.setFileName(dataFile.getAbsolutePath());
Don't do this. The absolute path to the file on your system will mean nothing
on the system that receives this message.
What you need to do is give the correct, perhaps full, pathname to FileDataSource
that names the file on your server.