apache james mail server to send emails

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Hi I am using apache james email server 2.3.2 for email sending thrugh my Java application I have setup it and using JavaMail API 1.4. I am tring to send emails to gmail/yahoo etc mail servers.

I could sent mail to accunts on localhost(account on locally running James ) but not to outside email servers.

I have changed /apps/config.xml also. I have my sample MyMailet on james. It is not throwing any exception. but mailet*.log is like:

13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James.Mailet: MyMailet#init called
13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James.Mailet: RemoteAddrNotInNetwork: Authorized addresses: [127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255]
13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: Total number of delayTime attempts exceeds maxRetries specified. Increasing maxRetries from 1 to 6
13/06/12 15:20:17 INFO  James.Mailet: MyMailet#service callednull from test@localhost
13/06/12 15:20:23 INFO  James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: Attempting delivery of Mail1339581017690-0 to host 192.168.15.186 at 192.168.15.186 for addresses [shreyas1910@gmail.com]
13/06/12 15:20:23 INFO  James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: null
13/06/12 15:20:23 INFO  James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: Temporary exception delivering mail (Mail1339581017690-0: 
13/06/12 15:20:23 INFO  James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: Storing message Mail1339581017690-0 into outgoing after 0 retries

dnsserver*.log is like:

13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  dnsserver: DNS Server is: 192.168.15.3

james*.log like:
13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James: JAMES init...
13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James: Local host is: IISD27
13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James: Handling mail for: 97.74.180.1
13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James: Handling mail for: iisd27
13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James: Handling mail for: gmail.com
13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James: Handling mail for: 74.125.236.182
13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James: Handling mail for: 74.125.236.181
13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James: Handling mail for: 127.0.0.1
13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James: Handling mail for: localhost
13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James: Local users repository opened
13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James: Private Repository LocalInbox opened
13/06/12 15:20:13 INFO  James: JAMES ...init end

and cofig.xml is like:

    <processor name="transport">
        <mailet match="All" class="RemoteDelivery">
        <outgoing> file://var/mail/outgoing/ </outgoing>

            <gateway>192.168.15.186</gateway>//My IP addresss. Tried with smtp.gmail.com also
            <gatewayPort>25</gatewayPort>
            <gatewayusername>user123</gatewayusername>
        <gatewayPassword>pass123</gatewayPassword>

        <!-- Set the HELO/EHLO name to use when connectiong to remote SMTP-Server -->

        <mail.smtp.localhost>myMailServer</mail.smtp.localhost>

        </mailet>

  </processor>

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 04 '12 at 15:44

I think problem caused by this:

Email servers before accepting any mail do a reverse dns query. They check the ip for domain that the email came from and the ip that email is really came from.

If ip of domain and ip of email sender does not match, mail servers think that email is junk or spam.

Here since your domain (I don't know what is it :-? ) is not a valid address when Email server send a reverse dns query does not get an IP and think your mail is junk or spam.

For more information check this: http://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/Fixing_Reverse_DNS

apache james mail server to send emails

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