Error sending email programmatically from non gmail account

Question

I'm trying to send and email programmatically from my Android app, using some known methods which I took from here.

The method is working fine with gmail account, but when I try with a different provider account like, hotmail, yahoo, outlook, it throws this error:

07-04 13:18:34.736: I/System.out(32140): ERROR SENDING MESSAGE: javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: smtp-mail.outlook.com, port: 587;
07-04 13:18:34.736: I/System.out(32140):   nested exception is:
07-04 13:18:34.736: I/System.out(32140):    javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: javax.net.ssl.SSLProtocolException: SSL handshake aborted: ssl=0x7912c980: Failure in SSL library, usually a protocol error
07-04 13:18:34.736: I/System.out(32140): error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol (external/openssl/ssl/s23_clnt.c:766 0x7387f7d0:0x00000000)

I'm using the following credentials to send the mail:

User: @hotmail.com Host: smtp-mail.outlook.com Port: 587

Tried with different accounts (all of them non gmail) and I get the same error every time.

My MailSender class is:

public class MailSender{

public synchronized static void sendMail(String[] dest, String org, String pass, String body, String port, String host){ 

    String[] to = dest;
    final String user = org;
    final String password = pass;
    MailcapCommandMap mc = (MailcapCommandMap) CommandMap.getDefaultCommandMap();
    mc.addMailcap("text/html;; x-java-content-handler=com.sun.mail.handlers.text_html");
    mc.addMailcap("text/xml;; x-java-content-handler=com.sun.mail.handlers.text_xml");
    mc.addMailcap("text/plain;; x-java-content-handler=com.sun.mail.handlers.text_plain");
    mc.addMailcap("multipart/*;; x-java-content-handler=com.sun.mail.handlers.multipart_mixed");
    mc.addMailcap("message/rfc822;; x-java-content-handler=com.sun.mail.handlers.message_rfc822");
    CommandMap.setDefaultCommandMap(mc);  

    Properties props = new Properties();
    props.put("mail.smtp.user", user);
    props.put("mail.smtp.host", host);
    props.put("mail.smtp.port", port);
    props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable","true");
    props.put("mail.smtp.debug", "true");
    props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", port);
    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class", "javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory");
    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback", "false");

    Session session = Session.getInstance(props, new javax.mail.Authenticator() {
        protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
            return new PasswordAuthentication(user,password);
        }
    });

    try{ 
        MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
        message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(user));     
        InternetAddress[] addressTo = new InternetAddress[to.length]; 
        for (int i = 0; i < to.length; i++) { 
            addressTo[i] = new InternetAddress(to[i]); 
        } 
        message.setRecipients(MimeMessage.RecipientType.TO, addressTo);
        message.setSubject("Arcas Ollé Alarm Message");   
        BodyPart messageBody = new MimeBodyPart();
        messageBody.setText(body);  
        Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart();
        multipart.addBodyPart(messageBody);
        message.setContent(multipart ); 
        Transport.send(message); 
        System.out.println("MESSAGE SENT...");
    }catch (MessagingException ex) {
        System.out.println("ERROR SENDING MESSAGE: "+ ex);
    }
  }
}

And I call the method like:

MailSender.sendMail(dest, org, pass, body, port, host);

As I said before the method works fine with gmail account, so I don't think it is a data parsing problem, and I'm sure all the credentials I tried are correct.

It could be a proprieties problem.

So if anyone could help me solve this out, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

margabro.

Answer 1

For reference:

Gmail- Host: smtp.gmail.com , Port: 465

Hotmail- Host: smtp.live.com , Port: 587

Yahoo- Host: smtp.mail.yahoo.com , Port: 465