[SOLVED] Sending Email via UNIX

[nwboy74]

I have a Java application that I need to send out an email report after it finishes. The application is running on a unix machine. Normally with Perl, I just open a file descriptor like

open(FH, "|mailx -s 'Some Subject' recipient");

Then I can write to it and it delivers the email. But I'm not sure how to accomplish this with Java. I am not able to install any Java add-ons.

[rock_star]

try javamail APIs

[nwboy74]

Is that an add-on? I've got Java 5.0 jre to work with.

[toadaly]

If you don't want to mess with javamail, you can simply spawn a process to do whatever you want using Runtime.exec(). You could use dtmail or whatever for that purpose.

[nwboy74]

Thank you. It works!

try {
    String[] cmd = {"mailx", "-s Test Email", "someuser"};
    Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
    OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(p.getOutputStream());
    osw.write("I am a test email");
    osw.close();
} catch (java.io.IOException ioe) {
}