Spring Mail Sender

By arunraj

In this article, lets discuss about Sending email using Spring framework support.

Sending an email using Spring framework is made simple using org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSender and org.springframework.mail.javamail.MimeMessageHelper beans in Spring.

Consider the SpringMailSender class below.

SpringMailSender Class

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package in.techdive.spring.mail;

import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.mail.MailAuthenticationException;
import org.springframework.mail.MailException;
import org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSender;
import org.springframework.mail.javamail.MimeMessageHelper;

public class SpringMailSender
{
        private JavaMailSender  mailSender;
        private MimeMessage        message;
        private String         fromAddress;
        private String         toAddress;

        public SpringMailSender()
        {
        }

        public void sendMail(String messageBody, String subject)
        {
                try
                {
                        message = mailSender.createMimeMessage();
                        MimeMessageHelper helper = new MimeMessageHelper(message, true, "UTF-8");
                        helper.setFrom(fromAddress);
                        helper.setSubject(subject);
                        helper.setTo(toAddress);
                        helper.setText(messageBody);
                }
                catch (MessagingException me)
                {
                        me.printStackTrace();
                }

                try
                {
                        mailSender.send(message);
                }
                catch (MailAuthenticationException ex)
                {
                        ex.printStackTrace();
                }
                catch (MailException me)
                {
                        me.printStackTrace();
                }
        }

        public JavaMailSender getMailSender()
        {
                return mailSender;
        }

        public void setMailSender(JavaMailSender mailSender)
        {
                this.mailSender = mailSender;
        }

        public String getFromAddress()
        {
                return fromAddress;
        }

        public void setFromAddress(String fromAddress)
        {
                this.fromAddress = fromAddress;
        }

        public String getToAddress()
        {
                return toAddress;
        }

        public void setToAddress(String toAddress)
        {
                this.toAddress = toAddress;
        }

        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
                ApplicationContext ctx = new FileSystemXmlApplicationContext(
                        new String[] { "classpath*:Spr-Example.xml" });

                SpringMailSender sprMailSender = (SpringMailSender) ctx.getBean("springMailSender");
                String messageBody = "";
                String subject = "";
                sprMailSender.sendMail(messageBody, subject);
        }
}

Have a look at the sendMail(..) function. It takes messageBody and subject as input parameters.

It creates a MimeMessage and then sets it to springs MimeMessageHelper bean. In this bean we need to set subject, fromAddress, toAddress, messageBody etc., The org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSender bean is injected in to the SpringMailSender class. It mainly contains the Smtp Port, Smtp Host Name, User Name and Password which are set in the application context.

Now look in to the application context for the beans which are injected.

Mail-context.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.0.xsd" >
<bean id="mailSender" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl">
<property name="host" value="smtp.techdive.in" />
<property name="username" value="" />
<property name="password" value="" />
</bean>
<bean id="springMailSender" class="SpringMailSender">
<property name="mailSender" ref="mailSender" />
<property name="fromAddress" value="admin_sender@techdive.in" />
<property name="toAddress" value="admin_receiver@techdive.in" />
</bean>
</beans>

In this way, we can use Spring framework to send emails.

Technology: 
Spring
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