Issue with mails is it depends on: - the type of transport - the provider setup - the provider protocol (some dont respect the standard protocol)
I can share the config for gmail but it is pretty much the one you have and it is straight forward. Yahoo is another story typically. Romain Manni-Bucau @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau> | Blog <http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com> | Github <https://github.com/rmannibucau> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau> | Tomitriber <http://www.tomitribe.com> | JavaEE Factory <https://javaeefactory-rmannibucau.rhcloud.com> 2016-05-26 21:54 GMT+02:00 paul <p...@roubekas.org>: > In order to avoid be spammed to death I am keeping any email address off > my website and only giving the user a HTML form to fill out with a backing > Servlet. Then in the Servlet I am sending an email using a external email > service provider, back to the appropriate person at their corporate email > address. The external email service provider requires a SSL/TLS > connection on port 465. There is no example on the TomEE examples page ( > https://tomee.apache.org/examples-trunk/index.html) for this use case. > The only thread on the users form that I found is this three year old one ( > http://tomee-openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/Not-loading-smtps-resource-properly-td4664442.html#a4664460). > There is a lot of back and forth about trying this then that then it > worked, O, not it didn't really work, etc..... > > Please consider creating a JavaMail SSL/TLS Servlet example. >