impossible to send a mail in HTML format

flamant

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Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 29

impossible to send a mail in HTML format

Oct 22nd, 2008, 01:42 AM

Hi,
I am not sure that this thread is posted in the right forum, anyway here is my problem :
I try to send a message in HTML format. Here is the code :

Code:

public void sendMessage(String subject, String message, String to, String cc, String bcc) throws MessagingException  {
    	
    	MimeMessage mimeMessage = mailSender.createMimeMessage();
    	MimeMessageHelper mimeMessageHelper = new MimeMessageHelper(mimeMessage, true, "UTF-8");
        if(to!=null && !to.equals("")){
        	mimeMessageHelper.setTo(to);
        }
        if(cc!=null && !cc.equals("")){
        	mimeMessageHelper.setCc(cc);
        }
        if(bcc!=null && !bcc.equals("")){
        	mimeMessageHelper.setBcc(bcc);
        }
        mimeMessageHelper.setSubject(subject);
        mimeMessageHelper.setText(message,true);
        mimeMessageHelper.setFrom(from);
        logger.info("host = "+mailSender.getHost());
        logger.info("Port = "+mailSender.getPort());
        //logger.info("UserName = "+mailSender.getUsername());
        //logger.info("Password = "+mailSender.getPassword());
       	mailSender.send(mimeMessage);
    }

and the message is the following :

Code:

String message = "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"<URL>">"+ "<htmlxmlns=\"<URL>\"><head><head/><body>"
+messageSource.getMessage("messagetosend.part1", null, Locale.ENGLISH)+ user.getFirstName()+" "+ user.getLastName()+"<br/>"
+ messageSource.getMessage("messagetosend.part2", null, Locale.ENGLISH)+<br/>"
+ messageSource.getMessage("messagetosend.part3", null, Locale.ENGLISH)+ newPassword+<br/>"
+ messageSource.getMessage("messagetosend.part4", null, Locale.ENGLISH)+<br/>"
+ messageSource.getMessage("messagetosend.part5", null, Locale.ENGLISH)+<br/>"
+ messageSource.getMessage("homepage.internet.address", null, Locale.ENGLISH)+"</body></html>";

according to what I found on internet, the method MimeMessageHelper.setText(message,true); specifies that the message is sent in HTML format ( second argument is boolean "true" saying it is a HTML message ).
But I don't get the message in HTML format. Anyone can help me ? thank you in advance

Last edited by flamant; Oct 28th, 2008, 01:51 AM.

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flamant

Junior Member

Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 29

Oct 27th, 2008, 12:42 AM

Hi,
somebody told me that the following method

Code:

mailSender.send(new MimeMessagePreparator() {
   public void prepare(MimeMessage mimeMessage) throws MessagingException {
     MimeMessageHelper message = new MimeMessageHelper(mimeMessage, true, "UTF-8");
     message.setFrom("[email protected]");
     message.setTo("[email protected]");
     message.setSubject("my subject");
     message.setText("my text <img src='cid:myLogo'>", true);
     message.addInline("myLogo", new ClassPathResource("img/mylogo.gif"));
     message.addAttachment("myDocument.pdf", new ClassPathResource("doc/myDocument.pdf"));
   }
 });

works, but it is not convenient for my case. Anyone can help me ? Thank you

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shahzad992

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Join Date: Nov 2005

Posts: 148

Regards,
Shahzad Ahsan
Ooober Brain
ooober.com
#3

Oct 27th, 2008, 04:58 AM

Hi,

I think following code should work:

public void sendEmail(final String fromEmailAddress, final String fromEmailPassword, String emailToAddress, String emailBccAddress){

File tempFile = null;

try {

String temp = null;
FileChannel srcChannel = null;
FileChannel dstChannel = null;

String fileToSend= tempFilePath + System.currentTimeMillis() + ".html";
tempFile = new File(fileToSend);

RandomAccessFile randomAccessFile = new RandomAccessFile(fileToSend, "rws");

if( tempFile!=null && tempFile.exists()) {

dstChannel = new FileOutputStream(tempFile).getChannel();
dstChannel.transferFrom(srcChannel, 0, srcChannel.size());
dstChannel.close();
}

String messageToSend = "";

messageToSend = "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"<URL>">" + "<htmlxmlns=\"<URL>\"><head><head/><body>"
+ messageSource.getMessage("messagetosend.part1", null, Locale.ENGLISH)+ user.getFirstName()+" "+ user.getLastName()+" "
+ messageSource.getMessage("messagetosend.part2", null, Locale.ENGLISH)+ "
+ messageSource.getMessage("messagetosend.part3", null, Locale.ENGLISH)+ newPassword+ "
+ messageSource.getMessage("messagetosend.part4", null, Locale.ENGLISH)+ "
+ messageSource.getMessage("messagetosend.part5", null, Locale.ENGLISH)+ "
+ messageSource.getMessage("homepage.internet.addres s", null, Locale.ENGLISH)+"</body></html>";
while((temp = randomAccessFile.readLine()) != null) {

randomAccessFile.seek(randomAccessFile.getFilePoin ter());
randomAccessFile.writeBytes(messageToSend);

break;
}

if(randomAccessFile!=null){
randomAccessFile.close();
}

String emailSubject = "emailSubject";

MimeMessage message = null;
Session session = null;

Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
session = Session.getDefaultInstance(properties, new javax.mail.Authenticator(){
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return new PasswordAuthentication(fromEmailAddress,fromEmailP assword);
}});

try {
BodyPart bodyPart = getFileBodyPart(fileToSend, "text/html");
Multipart multiPart = new MimeMultipart("alternative");
multiPart.addBodyPart(bodyPart);

message = new MimeMessage(session);
message.setSender(new InternetAddress(fromEmailAddress));
message.setSubject(emailSubject);
message.setContent(multiPart);
message.setRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(emailToAddress));
if(emailBccAddress!=null && emailBccAddress.length()>0){
message.setRecipient(Message.RecipientType.BCC, new InternetAddress(emailBccAddress));
}

logger.info("\n \n Sending email through Transport.... \n "+emailToAddress+" \n "+emailBccAddress);
Transport.send(message);

} catch (AddressException e) {

e.printStackTrace();
} catch (MessagingException e) {

e.printStackTrace();
}

if(tempFile!=null && tempFile.exists()) {
tempFile.delete();
tempFile = null;
}

} catch(IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();
}

}

Regards,
shahzad
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flamant

Junior Member

Join Date: Oct 2008

Posts: 29
#4

Oct 28th, 2008, 01:47 AM

thank you shahzad992 for your answer,
I just realized that my internet client didn't receive HTML format message. Actually my method to send messages in HTML format works. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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