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In the last exercise you sent a mail message using the demonstration program provided with the JavaMail implementation. In this exercise, you'll create the program yourself.

Prerequisites

• Setting Up Your JavaMail Environment

Skeleton Code

• MailExample.java

Tasks

1. Starting with the skeleton code, get the system Properties.

2. Add the name of your SMTP server to the properties for the mail.smtp.host key.

3. Get a Session object based on the Properties.

4. Create a MimeMessage from the session.

Set the from field of the message.

6. Set the to field of the message.

7. Set the subject of the message.

8. Set the content of the message.

9. Use a Transport to send the message.

10. Compile and run the program, passing your SMTP server, from address, and to address on the command line.

11. Check to make sure you received the message with your normal mail reader (Eudora, Outlook Express, pine, ...).

Where help exists, the task numbers above are linked to the step-by-step help page.

Solution Source

• MailExample.java

Demonstration

After executing the following command (replacing the email addresses and specifying your SMTP server):

java MailExample SMTP.Server from@address to@address

your program will send a mail message.

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