How to send email from android using java mail

Question

Hi Friends,

i want to send email from my application,how can write code for send email from my application,have any setup for email?,anybody knows,please give sample code for me..

Thanks All

Answer 1

You can either use Android's Intent system to launch the native email client on the phone. You can pre-populate the fields. User intervention is required to send the email. Code would be something like:

Intent email = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);     
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, recipients);     
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "First Email from Android");     
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject & Predicate");     
email.setType("message/rfc822");  
startActivity(email);  

You can also send attachments, see this thread for details.

EDIT:

Use android.content.Intent.EXTRA_STREAM and pass to it the URI of your file image file.
For e.g: if you have your a image file on your sdcard you can say:

emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_STREAM,
Uri.parse("file://"+Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath()+"/mybitmap.png"))

If you want to send an email programmatically, without user intervention you can use the JavaMail port for Android. I haven't tried it myself but see the following thread for details: Sending Email using JavaMail