Re: [Jetty-support] Jetty MailService not authenticating

[Eric R. <eri...@gm...>]

On 11/21/06, Eric Rizzo <eri...@gm...> wrote:
> I've just started using the MailService that is packaged as part of
> JettyPlus (5.1.4). Looking at the configuration and the code in
> MailService, it appears to set up an Authenticator for
> username/password authentication. However, when I try to send a
> message to my SMTP server, the Authenticator is not being called. As a
> result, the SMTP server is rejecting my send requests with a "Relay
> access denied" message (it has not seen my app authenticate yet, so
> this is a reasonable response).

This turned out to be a configuration problem.
JavaMail's SMTP transport assumes no authentication, so I have to set
the property mail.smtp.auth to "true" in the MailService configuration
to get JavaMail to invoke the Authenticator.
What sucks is that this option is buried on a JavaDoc page, not for a
class but for the package - who reads package JavaDos anyway?!

Sorry for the noise,
Eric