Comments: Using the Mail task in Apache Ant

hi

i am trying to use this ant mail task in my project but i am always getting error

i had already included mail.jar and activation.jar in my ant library..its very urgent can u help me to figure out the problem

(edit: have replaced the domain names with example.com, JB)

<target name="MAIL">
  <mail mailhost="localhost@example.com" mailport="25" subject="Test build" 
   charset="utf-8">
    <from address="salil_sanghvi@example.com"/>
    <to address="sagar_patel@example.com"/>
    <message>some international </message>
  </mail>
</target>

the error is

Problem while sending mime mail:

Thanks for blogging on this! A google search turned up this page, and it quickly solved my can't-handle-MIME problems.

Two additional things to add for other readers:

1.) The mail.jar file that needs to be added to Ant\lib is located in the base directory of the JavaMail download; it is not in the lib directory.

2.) You may also need to set the charset="ISO-8859-1" attribute to the Ant mail task. Thunderbird reads emails fine with or without it but MS Outlook complains about an unsupported (Cp1252) charset that might otherwise be used.

Regards, Glen

Hi John,

Thanks for providing informative and elaborative article on sending mail using Ant. I am new to Ant and your article helped me greatly.

One Suggestion: Would be great if you as well let users know that having a Mail Server running on the computer machine where they are running the ANT tool, it would really help them get through it faster.

Thanks very much once again, Bharat

i also faced the same problem stating MIME problem, but for yr information i already had set mail.jar n activation.jar files into ANT/lib folder path, so instead of having these jar , i was getting error during ANT mail send option.

So i just disable the anti- virus protection over the port 25, n wondered this time it is wrkg fine.

Hi, I have the two jars described above, I set the charset in my ant, but I still have the same problem. I'm runing ant 1.6.2 on Solaris.

My ant tag is the following:

(edit: have replaced the domain name with example.com, JB)

<target name="send_report">
	<property name="report" value="report.html"/>
	<mail from="JS"
		messagemimetype="text/html"
		charset="ISO-8859-1"
		messagefile="${report}"
		mailhost="<IP>"
		tolist="JS@example.com"
		subject="Build Report"/>
</target>

Thanks in advance.

Thanks, this has been bugging me for months. Worked perfectly. Thank you

Thanks, after placing mail.jar and activation.jar it is working for me.

-Kiran