Trying to send e-mail using JavaMail, JBoss 5, and JNDI

Question

Hello there,
Am using JBoss 5.1.0GA and JDK 1.5.0_19 on OS X Leopard.
Created a working SendMailServlet.
Have now decided to refactor it into two separate classes (extract out JavaMail code to a separate class and create a ServletController).
Am also trying to use JNDI to access the connection properties in the mail-service.xml configuration file residing in JBoss.
The Mailer class contains the reusable functionality needed to send an e-mail:
public class Mailer {
     private Session mailSession;
     protected void sendMsg(String email, String subject, String body)
     throws MessagingException, NamingException {
          Properties props = new Properties();
          InitialContext ictx = new InitialContext(props);
          Session mailSession = (Session) ictx.lookup("java:/Mail");
//          Session mailSessoin = Session.getDefaultInstance(props);
          String username = (String) props.get("mail.smtps.user");
          String password = (String) props.get("mail.smtps.password");
          MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(mailSession);
          message.setSubject(subject);
          message.setRecipients(javax.mail.Message.RecipientType.TO,
                    javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress.parse(email, false));
          message.setText(body);
          message.saveChanges();
          Transport transport = mailSession.getTransport("smtps");
          try {
               transport.connect(username, password);
               transport.sendMessage(message, message.getAllRecipients());
               Logger.getLogger(this.getClass()).warn("Message sent");
          finally {
               transport.close();
}The MailController class serves as a standard Java Servlet which invokes the Mailer.class's sendMsg() method:
public class MailController extends HttpServlet {
     /** static final HTML setting for content type */
     private static final String HTML = "text/html";
     myapp/** static final HTML setting for content type */
     private static final String PLAIN = "text/plain";
     public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
     throws ServletException, IOException {
          doPost(request, response);
     public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
     throws ServletException, IOException {
          response.setContentType(PLAIN);
          PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
          String mailToken = TokenUtil.getEncryptedKey();
          String body = "Hello there, " + "\n\n"
                    + "Wanna play a game of golf?" + "\n\n"
                 + "Please confirm: https://localhost:8443/myapp/confirm?token="
                 + mailToken + "\n\n" + "-Golf USA";
          Mailer mailer = new Mailer();
          try {
               mailer.sendMsg("[email protected]", "Golf Invitation!", body);
               out.println("Message Sent");
          catch (MessagingException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          catch (NamingException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
}Have the mail configuration set under $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/mail-service.xml:
<server>
  <mbean code="org.jboss.mail.MailService" name="jboss:service=Mail">
    <attribute name="JNDIName">java:/Mail</attribute>
    <attribute name="User">user</attribute>
    <attribute name="Password">password</attribute>
    <attribute name="Configuration">
      <configuration>
        <property name="mail.store.protocol" value="pop3"/>
        <property name="mail.transport.protocol" value="smtp"/>
        <property name="mail.user" value="user"/>
        <property name="mail.pop3.host" value="pop3.gmail.com"/>
        <property name="mail.smtp.host" value="smtp.gmail.com"/>
        <property name="mail.smtp.port" value="25"/>
        <property name="mail.from" value="[email protected]"/>
        <property name="mail.debug" value="true"/>
      </configuration>
    </attribute>
    <depends>jboss:service=Naming</depends>
  </mbean>
</server>web.xml (Deployment Descriptor):
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>MailController</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.myapp.MailController</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>MailController</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/sendmail</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>This is what is outputted when I start JBOSS and click point my browser to:
https://localhost:8443/myapp/sendmail
[MailService] Mail Service bound to java:/Mail
[STDOUT] DEBUG: JavaMail version 1.4ea
[STDOUT] DEBUG: java.io.FileNotFoundException:
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/lib/javamail.providers
(No such file or directory)
[STDOUT] DEBUG: !anyLoaded
[STDOUT] DEBUG: not loading resource: /META-INF/javamail.providers
[STDOUT] DEBUG: successfully loaded resource: /META-INF/javamail.default.providers
[STDOUT] DEBUG: getProvider() returning
javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtps,com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSSLTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc]
[STDOUT] DEBUG SMTP: useEhlo true, useAuth false
[STDOUT] DEBUG SMTP: trying to connect to host "localhost", port 465, isSSL true
[STDERR] javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 465;
  nested exception is:
     java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
[STDERR]      at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1282)
[STDERR]      at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:370)
[STDERR]      at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:275)
[STDERR]      at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:156)
[STDERR]      at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:176)
[STDERR]      at com.myapp.Mailer.sendMsg(Mailer.java:45)
[STDERR]      at com.myapp.MailController.doPost(MailController.java:42)
[STDERR]      at com.myapp.MailController.doGet(MailController.java:26)Why am I getting this java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused exception?
Happy programming,
Mike
Edited by: mwilson72 on Aug 21, 2009 4:49 PM

Answer 1

Hi Peter,
Nice to hear from you again!
Per your advice, this is what my mail-service.xml config file looks like now:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<server>
  <mbean code="org.jboss.mail.MailService" name="jboss:service=Mail">
  <attribute name="JNDIName">java:/Mail</attribute>
  <attribute name="User">user</attribute>
  <attribute name="Password">password</attribute>
  <attribute name="Configuration">
     <configuration>
        <property name="mail.store.protocol" value="pop3"/>
     <property name="mail.transport.protocol" value="smtps"/>
        <property name="mail.smtp.starttls.enable" value="true"/>
        <property name="mail.smtps.auth" value="true"/> 
        <property name="mail.user" value="user"/>
        <property name="mail.pop3.host" value="pop3.gmail.com"/>
        <property name="mail.smtp.host" value="smtp.gmail.com"/>
        <property name="mail.smtps.port" value="465"/>
        <property name="mail.from" value="[email protected]"/>
        <property name="mail.debug" value="true"/>
     </configuration>
   </attribute>
   <depends>jboss:service=Naming</depends>
  </mbean>
</server>Now, when I restart JBoss and point my browser to:
https://localhost:8443/myapp/sendmail
I get this exception:
[STDOUT] DEBUG SMTP: useEhlo true, useAuth true
[STDOUT] DEBUG SMTP: useEhlo true, useAuth true
[STDOUT] DEBUG SMTP: trying to connect to host "localhost", port 465, isSSL true
[STDERR] javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 465;
  nested exception is:
     java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
[STDERR] at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1282)
[STDERR] at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:370)
[STDERR] at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:297)
[STDERR] at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:156)
[STDERR] at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:176)
[STDERR] at com.myapp.Mailer.sendMsg(Mailer.java:45)
[STDERR] at com.myapp.MailController.doPost(MailController.java:42)
[STDERR] at com.myapp.MailController.doGet(MailController.java:26)Does anyone know what I am possibly doing wrong? Is it my code or is it the config file?
-Mike