Error in sending email using commons-email-1.3

Question

While sending email I am getting the following errors using commons-email-1.3.
I have downloaded and added external jar's to the project.
Please help me fix this problem!

package mypkg;

import org.apache.commons.mail.DefaultAuthenticator;
import org.apache.commons.mail.Email;
import org.apache.commons.mail.SimpleEmail;

public class sendingmail {
     public static void main(String[] args)  throws Exception {
            Email email = new SimpleEmail();
            email.setSmtpPort(587);
            email.setAuthenticator(new DefaultAuthenticator("myid","mypwd")); //Here is the error
            email.setDebug(false);
            email.setHostName("smtp.gmail.com");
            email.setFrom("me@gmail.com");
            email.setSubject("Hi");
            email.setMsg("This is a test mail ... :-)");
            email.addTo("you@gmail.com");
            email.setTLS(true);
            email.send();
            System.out.println("Mail sent!");

    }
}

The line that gives the error is

email.setAuthenticator(new DefaultAuthenticator("myid","mypwd"));

The error message is

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problems:

The type javax.mail.Authenticator cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files
The method setAuthenticator(Authenticator) from the type Email refers to the missing type Authenticator at mypkg.mailtest.main(mailtest.java:13)

ERROE LINE: email.setAuthenticator(new DefaultAuthenticator("myid","mypwd")); — H4SN, Feb 25 '13 at 08:08

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 25 '13 at 08:23

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Please download the jars from the specified links

Activation JAR

Java Mail jar

answered Feb 25 '13 at 08:23

SSC

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 25 '13 at 08:09

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You need both mail.jar and activation.jar in your classpath.

answered Feb 25 '13 at 08:09

Javier

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from where i cand find activation.jar? – H4SN Feb 25 '13 at 08:12

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 05 '17 at 08:31

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open file pom.xml, add code:

<dependencies>

  <!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-email -->   
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-email</artifactId>
        <version>1.4</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

answered Oct 05 '17 at 08:31

Minato

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Please explain the answers you provide. – Maciej Jureczko Oct 05 '17 at 08:48
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-email/1.4 Default of apache commons email. With Maven is as above. My english is not good. – Minato Oct 05 '17 at 16:21
Add this code so that it automatically downloads the required libraries from the internet. Here is using lib: commons-email. – Minato Oct 05 '17 at 21:48

Error in sending email using commons-email-1.3

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