javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not convert socket to TLS exception in JAVA

Question

I want to send a mail from my email address to another email address via clicking a button in JFrame netbeans.Here is the code,

import java.awt.HeadlessException;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.activation.DataHandler;
import javax.activation.DataSource;
import javax.activation.FileDataSource;
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.Multipart;
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;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import com.sun.mail.util.MailSSLSocketFactory;
import java.io.File;
import javax.mail.PasswordAuthentication;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.swing.JFileChooser;

    private void btn_sendActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {                                         
    final String From = txt_from.getText();
    final String password = txt_password.getText();
    String To = txt_to.getText();
    String subject = txt_sub.getText();
    String txtmessage = txt_body.getText();

    Properties props = new Properties();


    props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", "587");
    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class", "javax.net.ssl.SSLsocketFactory");
    props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
    props.put("mail.smtp.port", "587");
    props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true"); 
    props.put("mail.smtp.ssl.trust", "smtp.gmail.com");
    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback", "true");
    props.put("mail.smtp.ssl.socketFactory", "true");
    props.put("mail.smtp.EnableSSL.enable","true");

    Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props,
            new javax.mail.Authenticator() {

                protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
                    return new PasswordAuthentication(From, password);
                }
            }
    );


    try {
        Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
        message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(From));
        message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, InternetAddress.parse(To));
        message.setSubject(subject);

        MimeBodyPart messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
        messageBodyPart.setText(txtmessage);
        Multipart multiPart = new MimeMultipart();
        multiPart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);


        messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
        DataSource source = new FileDataSource(attachment_path);
        messageBodyPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(source));
        messageBodyPart.setFileName(txt_DocAttach.getText());
        multiPart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);

        message.setContent(multiPart);

        Transport.send(message);
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(rootPane, "Message is sent");
    } catch (MessagingException | HeadlessException e) {
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(rootPane, e);
    }

}

But it is giving me following error,

javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not convert socket to TLS; nested exception is: java.io.lOException: Exception in startTLS using SSL socket factory class null: host, port smtp.gmail.com, 587; Exception: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.netssl.SSLsocketFactory

Tried a lot but can't figure out what to do to solve it? Help please.

Answer 1

Try to change the value of the property mail.smtp.socketFactory.class to javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory instead of javax.net.ssl.SSLsocketFactory, The class name is case sensitive.

For more infromations about connection properties you can look at: Where to find all available Java mail properties?