javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException: failed to connect, no password specified?

Question

This program attempts to send e-mail but throws a run time exception:

javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException: failed to connect, no password specified?
         


        

Answer 1

Try to create an javax.mail.Authenticator Object, and send that in with the properties object to the Session object.

Authenticator edit:

You can modify this to accept a username and password and you can store them there, or where ever you want.

public class SmtpAuthenticator extends Authenticator {
public SmtpAuthenticator() {

    super();
}

@Override
public PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
 String username = "user";
 String password = "password";
    if ((username != null) && (username.length() > 0) && (password != null) 
      && (password.length   () > 0)) {

        return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password);
    }

    return null;
}

In your class where you send the email:

SmtpAuthenticator authentication = new SmtpAuthenticator();
javax.mail.Message msg = new MimeMessage(Session
                    .getDefaultInstance(emailProperties, authenticator));