Java Mail Exception Error;

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MyCode:

import java.util.Properties;
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.PasswordAuthentication;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Transport;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
public class SendMailTLS {
public static void main(String[] args) {
    final String username = "myemailid@gmail.com";
    final String password = "myemailpassword";
    Properties props = new Properties();
    props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
    props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
    props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
    props.put("mail.smtp.port", "587");
    Session session = Session.getInstance(props,
      new javax.mail.Authenticator() {
        protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
            return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password);
        }
      });

    try {
        Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
        message.setFrom(new InternetAddress("myemailid@gmail.com"));
        message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO,
            InternetAddress.parse("myfriedemail@ymail.com"));
        message.setSubject("Testing Subject");
        message.setText("Dear Mail Crawler,"+
 "\n\n No spam to my email,please!"); 
        Transport.send(message);
        System.out.println("Done");
    } catch (MessagingException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
}
}

My Error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: javax.mail.MessagingException:
Unknown SMTP host: smtp.gmail.com;
nested exception is:
java.net.UnknownHostException: smtp.gmail.com
at Mail.SendMailTLS.main(SendMailTLS.java:56)
Caused by: javax.mail.MessagingException: Unknown SMTP host: smtp.gmail.com;
nested exception is:
java.net.UnknownHostException: smtp.gmail.com
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1970)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:642)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:317)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:176)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:125)
at javax.mail.Transport.send0(Transport.java:194)
at javax.mail.Transport.send(Transport.java:124)
at Mail.SendMailTLS.main(SendMailTLS.java:51)
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: smtp.gmail.com
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:525)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:475)
at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.createSocket(SocketFetcher.java:319)
at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.getSocket(SocketFetcher.java:233)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1938)
… 7 more
Java Result: 1

I am having the Local proxy as 172.17.0.4:8080
with username as :user1, password as: user2
Solutions pls??

Best Answer

Try this server:

smtp.googlemail.com