Using javamail, gmail refusing authentication due to application being less secure

Question

I am running a very basic Javamail program to try sending emails. This is stand-alone program with main(). Once I get it working, I plan to use Javamail in a servlet running und

Answer 1

how can I make my application more secure so that gmail does not refuse authentication?

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One good way in my opinion would be to enable two-way authentication and replace the normal Gmail password with the generated application specific password in your code.

final String smtpServer = "smtp.gmail.com";
final String userAccount = "****@gmail.com"; // Sender Account.
final String password = "****"; // Password -> Application Specific Password.
final String SOCKET_FACTORY = "javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory";
final String smtpPort = "587";
final String PORT = "465";

final Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("mail.smtp.host", smtpServer);
props.put("mail.smtp.user", userAccount);
props.put("mail.smtp.password", password);
props.put("mail.smtp.port", smtpPort);
props.put("mail.smtp.auth", true);
props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
props.put("mail.smtp.debug", "false");
props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", PORT);
props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class", SOCKET_FACTORY);
props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback", "false");

Session session = Session.getInstance(props,
new javax.mail.Authenticator() {
    protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
        return new PasswordAuthentication(userAccount, password);
    }
});
MimeMessage mimeMessage = new MimeMessage(session);
final Address toAddress = new InternetAddress("****@outlook.com"); // toAddress
final Address fromAddress = new InternetAddress(userAccount);
mimeMessage.setContent("This is a test mail...", "text/html; charset=UTF-8");
mimeMessage.setFrom(fromAddress);
mimeMessage.setRecipient(javax.mail.Message.RecipientType.TO, toAddress);
mimeMessage.setSubject("Test Mail...");
Transport transport = session.getTransport("smtp");
transport.connect(smtpServer, userAccount, password);
transport.sendMessage(mimeMessage, mimeMessage.getAllRecipients());