Please help me in sending mail to Microsoft Outlook

Question

Hi!
I want to sned a mail from jsp or servlet to Microsoft outlook. Could anyone help me out in sending mail. It is a web-based project. I have to get the mail-id in a textfield and send it to that ID.
Regards,
Krishna.

Answer 1

Hi,
First of all; you don't send a mail to Microsoft Outlook. It's just one of many email clients. You send a mail to an email address using the most suitable protocol, for example SMTP.
That being said, Java actually supports the SMTP protocol, you don't even need to use an extra package such as JavaMail. Here's a small piece of code showing you how to do this.
public void sendMessage(String recipients,
                        String sender,
                        String subject,
                        String message,
                        String mailhost)
  throws IOException, MalformedURLException {
  // Specify the mailserver.
  System.getProperties().put("mail.host", mailhost);
  // Establish the connection to the mailserver.
  URL           u = new URL("mailto:" + recipients);
  URLConnection c = u.openConnection();
  c.setDoInput(false);    // No input from this URL.
  c.setDoOutput(true);    // Output to this URL.
  c.connect();
  // Print the message.
  PrintWriter out =  new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(c.getOutputStream()));
  out.print("From: ");     out.println(sender);
  out.print("To: ");       out.println(recipients);
  out.print("Subject: ");  out.println(subject);
  out.println();           // Blank line to end the list of headers.
  out.println(message);
  // Close the stream to terminate the message.
  out.close();
}Good luck,
  /Håkan