Email Sending Using Microsoft Exchange Server and SMTP

This is a basic code for sending mail via EWS and SMTP

EWS - Microsoft Exchange Server

Required jars

The following jars should be added in the project build path

• commons-codec-1.9.jar
• commons-lang3-3.4.jar
• commons-logging-1.2.jar
• ews-java-api-2.0.jar
• httpclient-4.4.1.jar
• httpcore-4.4.1.jar
• joda-time-2.8.jar

Necessary credentials

• Email id which is used to open microsoft account
• That microsoft account password

SMTP

Required jars

The following jars should be added in the project build path

• javax.mail.jar
• smtp-1.4.5.jar

Necessary credentials

• gmail id
• gmail id's password

A very important point to understand

In my EmailMessenger.java code in line number 121 there has a line

message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(this.smtpFrom, "National University of Singapore")); // from , view

if we use the 121 line's code

View before opening the mail will be as bellow:

View after opening the mail will be as bellow:

if we don't use the 121 line's code

View before opening the mail will be as bellow:

Basically daihan.work is the username which is displayed before opening the mail. This is what we actually see as usual .

View after opening the mail will be as bellow:

References

1. ews - Stackoverflow
2. smtp - Stackoverflow