Re: sending email from localhost with JavaMail -- WEIRD prob w/servlet...

From:

Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:01:31 +0100

Message-ID:

<h005db$soh$1@south.jnrs.ja.net>

maya wrote:

oh brother... it seems the more I work on this the more trouble I run
into; here's a really weird one: SMTP code:

     props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.comcast.net");
     props.setProperty("mail.smtp.port", "587");
     Authenticator auth = new SMTPAuthenticator(uid, Pswd);
     props.setProperty("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
     Session session = Session.getInstance(props, auth);


yet when I try to send email from localhost I get following error:

Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 25;
   nested exception is:
      java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect

You need to review exactly what you are doing. The code and the error message
are self-contradictory. The code is attempting to contact smtp.comcast.net on
port 587, but the error messages says that an attempt contact localhost on port
25 failed. I don't see how the former could possibly lead to the latter, unless
you have some really, really weird port redirecting/NAT firewall configuration.

--
Nigel Wade