Could not connect to SMTP host: email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, port: 465, response: -1

Question

I am trying to send email with Amazon\'s SES/SMTP and I am getting the following error:

javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: em

Answer 1

Properties props = new Properties();
props.setProperty("mail.transport.protocol", "smtp");
props.setProperty("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
props.setProperty("mail.host", "email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com");
props.setProperty("mail.user", "your_ses_user");
props.setProperty("mail.password", "your_ses_pwd");



Session mailSession = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, new Authenticator(){
    public PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
        String username = "your_ses_user";
        String password = "your_ses_pwd";
        return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password);
    }
});

These code have been tested, works fine well. If you want use SMTP over SSL, please config:

props.setProperty("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");

Or you can download AWS Java SDK from HERE.

Code sample is HERE