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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by Reeganz <sa...@yahoo.com> on 2008/08/13 23:03:01 UTC

Re: Problem with mail task

This issue is because of the classpath:
Add latest mail.jar & activation.jar to your ANT_HOME/lib and
then run the ant task through command prompt, it will work....
Reply back if you face any issues...


Petar Tahchiev wrote:
> 
> On 07/01/06, Rhino <rh...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>> I have a fairly trivial 'mail' task in my Ant script that is giving me
>> this
>> output:
>> [mail] Failed to initialise MIME mail: javax/mail/MessagingException
>>
>> [mail] Sending email: Update ZoneEdit Password
>>
>> [mail] Sent email with 0 attachments
>>
>> Even though the email was sent and received without difficulty, I am
>> concerned about the first line of output and would like to make this go
>> away
>> if it's not going to be a major pain.
>>
>> The only parameters I am using are 'mailhost', 'from address', 'replyto
>> address', 'cc address', and 'message' and all of them appear to have
>> valid
>> values since the email is sent and received fine.
>>
>> What can I do to make that error message go away?
>>
>> By the way, I've copied this 'mail' task from an older script but
>> according
>> to the article on 'mail' in the Ant 1.6.5 manual, the correct parameters
>> to
>> use are 'from', 'replyto', and 'cclist' _NOT_ 'from address', 'replyto
>> address', 'cc address'. Why are my parameters working even though they
>> are
>> wrong? And why do I get an error when I try to use the parameters in the
>> manual? Strangely, the examples used for the 'mail' task also use 'from
>> address', and 'replyto address', making the article inconsistent with
>> itself! What's the story here?
>>
>> I am using Ant 1.6.5 in Windows XP Pro (SP2 applied).
>>
>> ---
>> Rhino
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> No virus found in this outgoing message.
>> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
>> Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.14/222 - Release Date:
>> 05/01/2006
>>
>>
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> The message: "Failed to initialise MIME mail" usually comes when Ant can't
> find Sun's JavaMail API in the ANT_HOME/lib directory. In case ant doesn't
> find activation.jar and mail.jar in those directory it uses its own
> implementation for sending mail. Maybe you use some old version of
> actvation.jar and mail.jar? Or maybe the content type of your message is
> not
> text/plain?
> --
> Regards, Petar!
> 
> 

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