Send Mail to multiple Recipients in java

Question

I want to send a message to multiple Recipients using following the method :

message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, String arg1);

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Answer 1

Internet E-mail address format (RFC 822)

(,)comma separated sequence of addresses

javax.mail - 1.4.7 parse( String[] ) is not allowed. So we have to give comma separated sequence of addresses into InternetAddress objects. Addresses must follow RFC822 syntax.

String toAddress = "mail@mail.com,mail2@mail.com";
InternetAddress.parse( toAddress );

(;) semi-colon separated sequence of addresses « If group of address list is provided with delimeter as ";" then convert to String array using split method to use the following function.

String[] addressList = { "mail@mail.com", "mail2@mail.com" };

String toGroup = "mail@mail.com;mail2@mail.com";
String[] addressList2 = toGroup.split(";");

setRecipients(message, addressList);

public static void setRecipients(Message message, Object addresslist) throws AddressException, MessagingException {
    if ( addresslist instanceof String ) { // CharSequence
        message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, InternetAddress.parse( (String) addresslist  ));
    } else if ( addresslist instanceof String[] ) { // String[] « Array with collection of Strings/
        String[] toAddressList = (String[]) addresslist;
        InternetAddress[] mailAddress_TO = new InternetAddress[ toAddressList.length ];
        for (int i = 0; i < toAddressList.length; i++) {
            mailAddress_TO[i] = new InternetAddress( toAddressList[i] );
        }
        message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, mailAddress_TO);
    }
}

Full Example:

public static Properties getMailProperties( boolean addExteraProps ) {
    Properties props = new Properties();
    props.put("mail.transport.protocol", MAIL_TRNSPORT_PROTOCOL);
    props.put("mail.smtp.host", MAIL_SERVER_NAME);
    props.put("mail.smtp.port", MAIL_PORT);

    // Sending Email to the GMail SMTP server requires authentication and SSL.
    props.put("mail.smtp.auth", true);
    if( ENCRYPTION_METHOD.equals("STARTTLS") ) {
        props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", true);
        props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", SMTP_STARTTLS_PORT); // 587
    } else {
        props.put("mail.smtps.ssl.enable", true);
        props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", SMTP_SSL_PORT); // 465
    }
    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory", SOCKETFACTORY_CLASS);
    return props;
}

public static boolean sendMail(String subject, String contentType, String msg, Object recipients) throws Exception {

    Properties props = getMailProperties( false );
    Session mailSession = Session.getInstance(props, null);
    mailSession.setDebug(true);

    Message message = new MimeMessage( mailSession );
    message.setFrom( new InternetAddress( USER_NAME ) );

    setRecipients(message, recipients);

    message.setSubject( subject );

    String htmlData = "
This is actual message embedded in HTML tags
";
    message.setContent( htmlData, "text/html");

    Transport transport = mailSession.getTransport( MAIL_TRNSPORT_PROTOCOL );
    transport.connect(MAIL_SERVER_NAME, Integer.valueOf(MAIL_PORT), USER_NAME, PASSWORD);
    message.saveChanges(); // don't forget this

    transport.sendMessage(message, message.getAllRecipients());
    transport.close();
}

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Using Appache SimpleEmail - commons-email-1.3.1

Example: email.addTo( addressList );

public static void sendSimpleMail() throws Exception {
    Email email = new SimpleEmail();
    email.setSmtpPort(587);

    DefaultAuthenticator defaultAuthenticator = new DefaultAuthenticator( USER_NAME, PASSWORD );

    email.setAuthenticator( defaultAuthenticator );
    email.setDebug(false);
    email.setHostName( MAIL_SERVER_NAME );
    email.setFrom( USER_NAME );
    email.setSubject("Hi");
    email.setMsg("This is a test mail ... :-)");

    //email.addTo( "mail@mail.com", "Yash" );
    String[] toAddressList = { "mail@mail.com", "mail2@mail.com" }
    email.addTo( addressList );

    email.setTLS(true);
    email.setStartTLSEnabled( true );
    email.send();
    System.out.println("Mail sent!");
}