Problems when sending an email through a servlet

Question

Hi I have a servlet trying to send an email to an address given.. but the servlet does not respond at all, it doesn's throw any exception nor displays any message, anything I hope you can help, this is the DoGet method I have in the servlet:
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
System.out.println("In doGet method");
StringBuffer body=null;
try {           
body = setBodyMessage(request);
sendmail(body);
out.println("<table align=center cols= 2 border=0 width=100% height=100% >");
out.println("<tr><td>");
out.println("<div align=center><b><font face=Arial, Helvetica, align=center sans-serif size=4 color='red'> The Change request was sent </font></b></div></td></tr></table>");
catch(NullPointerException e){
e.printStackTrace();
out.println(e.toString());
out.println(e.getMessage());
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
System.err.println(e.toString());
System.out.println(e.toString());
finally{
out.close();
The function setBodyMessage, sets a properly e-mail body message to be sent by the parameters that come from a previous form page.
I have this sendmail method defined as follow:
public void sendmail(StringBuffer mailBody){
String email = "[email protected]";
try{
PrintStream outmail;
SmtpClient send = new SmtpClient("nyschx06psge.sch.ge.com");
send.from("[email protected]");
send.to(email);
outmail = send.startMessage();
outmail.println("From: [email protected]");
outmail.println("To: " + email);
outmail.println("Subject: Welcome");
outmail.println(mailBody.toString());
outmail.flush();
outmail.close();
send.closeServer();
catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e.toString());
e.printStackTrace();
I try it out in a jsp page and the code works but I need it running in a servlet. Can anyone help me please?, thanks in advance.
Regards.

Answer 1

Are you able to print the value of StringBuffer body before calling the sendmail method?