How to send an email from Outlook via Java?

Question

I am stuck behind a corporate firewall that won't let me send email via conventional means such as Java Mail API or Apache Commons Email, even to other people inside the organization(which is all I want anyways). But my Outlook 2010 obviously can send these emails. I was wondering if there is a way to automate Outlook 2010 via Java code so that Outlook can send the emails ? I know stuff like "mailto" can be used pop-up the default Outlook send dialog with pre-populated info, but I am looking for a way to have the send operation happen behind the scenes. Thanks for any info.

Answer 1

You can send emails through outlook with javamail use the configurations described on Outlook's official site.

Here is small demo code

import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
import java.util.Properties;

public static void main(String[] args) {
    final String username = "your email";  // like [email protected]
    final String password = "*********";   // password here

    Properties props = new Properties();
    props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
    props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
    props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp-mail.outlook.com");
    props.put("mail.smtp.port", "587");

    Session session = Session.getInstance(props,
      new javax.mail.Authenticator() {
        @Override
        protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
            return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password);
        }
      });
    session.setDebug(true);

    try {

        Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
        message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(username));
        message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO,
            InternetAddress.parse("receiver mail"));   // like [email protected]
        message.setSubject("Test");
        message.setText("HI you have done sending mail with outlook");

        Transport.send(message);

        System.out.println("Done");

    } catch (MessagingException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
}

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Note: I tested this with Javamail API 1.5.6