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));

Answer 2

In addition to RMT's answer. I also had to modify the code a bit.

1. Transport.send should be accessed statically
2. therefor, transport.connect did not do anything for me, I only needed to set the connection info in the initial Properties object.

here is my sample send() methods. The config object is just a dumb data container.

public boolean send(String to, String from, String subject, String text) {
    return send(new String[] {to}, from, subject, text);
}

public boolean send(String[] to, String from, String subject, String text) {

    Properties props = new Properties();
    props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
    props.put("mail.smtp.host", config.host);
    props.put("mail.smtp.user", config.username);
    props.put("mail.smtp.port", config.port);
    props.put("mail.smtp.password", config.password);

    Session session = Session.getInstance(props, new SmtpAuthenticator(config));

    try {
        Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
        message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
        InternetAddress[] addressTo = new InternetAddress[to.length];
        for (int i = 0; i < to.length; i++) {
            addressTo[i] = new InternetAddress(to[i]);
        }
        message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, addressTo);
        message.setSubject(subject);
        message.setText(text);
        Transport.send(message);
    } catch (MessagingException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

Answer 3

Your email session should be provided an authenticator instance as below

Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props,
    new Authenticator() {
        protected PasswordAuthentication  getPasswordAuthentication() {
        return new PasswordAuthentication(
                    "myemail@gmail.com", "password");
                }
    });

a complete example is here http://bharatonjava.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/sending-email-using-java-mail-api/

Answer 4

You need to add the Object Authentication as the Parameter to the Session. such as

Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, 
    new javax.mail.Authenticator(){
        protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
            return new PasswordAuthentication(
                "XXXX@gmail.com", "XXXXX");// Specify the Username and the PassWord
        }
});

now You will not get this kind of Exception....

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

Answer 5

First of all, enable the less secure app in your Gmail account from which you will send emails using this link:- https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps?pli=1

Then you simply add the following code in your session creation. It will work fine then.

Session mailSession = Session.getInstance(props, new javax.mail.Authenticator(){
            protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
                return new PasswordAuthentication(
                    "your_email", "your_password");// Specify the Username and the PassWord
            }
        });

if you want the more elaborated one use the following:-

import java.util.Properties;

import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.NoSuchProviderException;
import javax.mail.PasswordAuthentication;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Transport;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart;

public class MailSender {

    public Properties mailProperties() {
        Properties props = new Properties();

        props.setProperty("mail.transport.protocol", "smtp");
        props.setProperty("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
        props.setProperty("mail.smtp.port", "587");
        props.setProperty("mail.smtp.user", "your_email");
        props.setProperty("mail.smtp.password", "your_password");
        props.setProperty("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
        props.setProperty("mail.smtp.auth", "true");

        return props;
    }

    public String sendMail(String from, String to, String subject, String msgBody) {
        Properties props = mailProperties();
        Session mailSession = Session.getInstance(props, new javax.mail.Authenticator(){
            protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
                return new PasswordAuthentication(
                    "your_email", "your_password");// Specify the Username and the PassWord
            }
        });

        mailSession.setDebug(false);

        try {
            Transport transport = mailSession.getTransport();

            MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(mailSession);
            message.setSubject(subject);
            message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
            message.addRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, to);

            MimeMultipart multipart = new MimeMultipart();

            MimeBodyPart messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();

            messageBodyPart.setContent(msgBody, "text/html");

            multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);
            message.setContent(multipart);

            transport.connect();
            transport.sendMessage(message, message.getRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO));
            transport.close();
            return "SUCCESS";
        } catch (NoSuchProviderException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return "INVALID_EMAIL";
        } catch (MessagingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return "ERROR";
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        System.out.println(new MailSender().sendMail("your_email/from_email", "to_email", "Subject", "Message"));
    }
}

Hope! it helps. Thanks!

Answer 6

I have just faced this problem, and the solution is that the property "mail.smtp.user" should be your email (not username).

The example for gmail user:

properties.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
properties.put("mail.smtp.host", host);
properties.put("mail.smtp.user", from);
properties.put("mail.smtp.password", pass);
properties.put("mail.smtp.port", "587");
properties.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");