Send Mails in Liferay Plugin Portlet
Objective:
Send mails in liferay plug-in portlet.
Liferay provide inbuilt mail sending functionality
from that we can send mails. Liferay provide simple administration screen for
mail server configuration so that we can configure mails server and we can send
mails in plug-in portlet development.
Download MailSender portlet from following location
You can find source and war file
Note:
Portlet developed in Liferay 6.1GA2 EE version
If you want deploy in CE version you just do changes in liferay-plugin-package.properties
Liferay 6.1 EE version
name=MailSender
module-group-id=liferay-ee
module-incremental-version=1
tags=
short-description=
change-log=
page-url=http://www.liferay.com
author=Liferay, Inc.
licenses=EE
portal-dependency-jars=\
jstl-api.jar,\
jstl-impl.jar
portal-dependency-tlds=c.tld
liferay-versions=6.1.20
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Liferay 6.1 CE version
name = MailSender
module-group-id=liferay
module-incremental-version=1
tags=
short-description=
change-log=
page-url=http://www.liferay.com
author=Liferay, Inc.
licenses=LGPL
portal-dependency-jars=\
jstl-api.jar,\
jstl-impl.jar
portal-dependency-tlds=c.tld
liferay-versions=6.1.1
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Procedure for deploy
portlet:
You can use war file and directly place in your portal deploy folder and
test or you can also use source to deploy portlet.
Once portlet is deployed successfully you can see the portlet in sample
category name as Mail Sender.
The
following are the steps to send mails in liferay
- Configure mail server
- Use Liferay MailServieUtil to send mails
Configure
mail server
We can configure mail configuration in liferay
server administration part.
The mail configuration nothing but specify SMTP
and IMAP/POP
details.
SMPT:
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) used to send mails
POP/IMAP:
This is used to receive mails.
Note:
For every mail server we will have this information
so that we can configure in liferay so that we can send and receive mails.
Example
Mail servers:
JAMES mail server, Zimbra
Available Mail server
If we don’t have any mail server we can use our GMAIL
as mail server in liferay. Gmail also provides SMTP and POP/IMAP
details so that we can use GMAIL server information for send and receive mails
in liferay.
The following are the GMAIL server setting
information URL
Note:
In the following mail configuration I have used GMAIL.
So you can also use your GMAIL.
Here only change is you have provide your GMAIL email
address and password .
Liferay
mail configuration:
Login as Liferay Admin and go to control
panel.
In right side panel go to Server section and click Server
Administration
Select mail tab and fill with your mail
server information
The
following is example screen for mail configuration in liferay
Note:
You can use IMAP or POP as incoming server.
For Gmail mail server setting go through following
link
Based on your secure layer implementation for you
server you have to change port number to SMTP
Like if you use SSL then SMTP port is 465 or if you
are use TLS then SMTP port is 587
Use
Liferay MailServieUtil to send mails
Liferay provide some of mail implementation java classes
in liferay kernel level so that we can use in plug-in portlet. We have one of
util class called MailServieUtil by using this we can send mails.
MailServiceUtil.sendEmail(mailMessage) this method take MailMessage object.
Note:
MailMessage
having
much setter methods to format mail message.
The
following is full code to send mail
public class
MailSenderAction extends MVCPortlet {
public void
sendMailMessage(
ActionRequest
actionRequest, ActionResponse actionResponse)
throws
IOException, PortletException, AddressException {
System.out.println("====sendMailMessage===");
String
mailSubject=ParamUtil.getString(actionRequest,"mailSubject");
String
mailBody=ParamUtil.getString(actionRequest,"editor");
String
senderMailAddress=ParamUtil.getString(actionRequest,"senderEmailAddess");
String
receiverMailAddress=ParamUtil.getString(actionRequest,"receiverEmailAddess");
System.out.println("1111"+mailBody);
try {
MailMessage
mailMessage=new MailMessage();
mailMessage.setBody(mailBody);
mailMessage.setSubject(mailSubject);
mailMessage.setFrom(new
InternetAddress(senderMailAddress));
mailMessage.setTo(new
InternetAddress(receiverMailAddress));
MailServiceUtil.sendEmail(mailMessage);
SessionMessages.add(actionRequest.getPortletSession(),"mail-send-success");
}
catch
(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
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