how to send a html email with attached file using JavaMail
Creating a mail with an HTML body and an attachment, actually means creating a mail whose content is a "multipart entity", that contains two parts, one of them being the HTML content, et the second being the attached file.
This does not correspond to your current code:
Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart(); // creating a multipart is OK
// Creating the first body part of the multipart, it's OK
messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
// ... bla bla
// ok, so this body part is the "attachment file"
messageBodyPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(source));
// ... bla bla
multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart); // at this point, the multipart contains your file attachment, but only that!
// at this point, you set your mail's body to be the HTML message
message.setContent(html, "text/html; charset=utf-8");
// and then right after that, you **reset** your mail's content to be your multipart, which does not contain the HTML
message.setContent(multipart);
At this point, your email's content is a multipart that has only 1 part, which is your attachment.
So, to reach your expected result, you should proceed differently :
- Create a multipart (as you did)
- Create a part, that has your file attachment as a content (as you did)
- Add this first part to the multipart (as you did)
- Create a second
MimeBodyPart
- Add your html content to that second part
- Add this second part to your multipart
- Set your email's content to be the multipart (as you did)
Which roughly translates to :
Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart(); //1
// Create the attachment part
BodyPart attachmentBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart(); //2
attachmentBodyPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(fileDataSource)); //2
attachmentBodyPart.setFileName(file.getName()); // 2
multipart.addBodyPart(attachmentBodyPart); //3
// Create the HTML Part
BodyPart htmlBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart(); //4
htmlBodyPart.setContent(htmlMessageAsString , "text/html"); //5
multipart.addBodyPart(htmlBodyPart); // 6
// Set the Multipart's to be the email's content
message.setContent(multipart); //7
**Send Email using html body and file attachement**
> try {
host = localhost;//use your host or pwd if any
Properties props = System.getProperties();
props.put("mail.smtp.host", host);
props.setProperty("mail.smtp.auth", "false");
Session session = Session.getInstance(props, null);
MimeMessage mailer = new MimeMessage(session);
// recipient
mailer.setRecipient(javax.mail.Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(toEmail));
// sender
mailer.setFrom(new InternetAddress(fromEmail));
// cc
if (ccEmail != null) {
for (int i = 0; i < ccEmail.size(); i++) {
String cc = ccEmail.get(i);
mailer.addRecipient(javax.mail.Message.RecipientType.CC, new InternetAddress(cc));
}
}
Transport t = session.getTransport("smtp");
t.connect();
mailer.setSubject(subject);
mailer.setFrom(new InternetAddress(fromEmail));
// attachement
Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart();
BodyPart messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
BodyPart attachmentBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
messageBodyPart.setContent(htmlbody, "text/html"); // 5
multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);
// file path
File filename = new File(xmlurl);
DataSource source = new FileDataSource(filename);
attachmentBodyPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(source));
attachmentBodyPart.setFileName(filename.getName());
multipart.addBodyPart(attachmentBodyPart);
mailer.setContent(multipart);
Transport.send(mailer);
System.out.println("Mail completed");
} catch (SendFailedException e) {//errr
}
}