Liferay is easy: Send Mail in Liferay Programmatically

In the Previous blog we see how to we Configure mail in Liferay.In this blog we will see how to send mail programmatically . Sending mail in Liferay is very simple we just need to use MailServiceUtil class that is provided by Liferay .Here we Consider 3 Scenario:-

So lets start :-

Scenario 1:-Send Mail With Plain Text
Create a method in your class as:-

	public void sendMailWithPlainText() {
	InternetAddress fromAddress = null;
	InternetAddress toAddress = null;

	try {
	fromAddress = new InternetAddress("aa665845@gmail.com");
	toAddress = new InternetAddress("xxx@gmail.com");
	MailMessage mailMessage = new MailMessage();
	mailMessage.setTo(toAddress);
	mailMessage.setFrom(fromAddress);
	mailMessage.setSubject("Testing mail with Plain Text");
	mailMessage.setBody("This Mail Comes From Liferay Is Easy");
	MailServiceUtil.sendEmail(mailMessage);
	System.out.println("Send mail with Plain Text");
	} catch (AddressException e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
	}
	}

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Explanation:-

Here FromAddress should be same email address that is used in Configuration.

Output:-

Scenario 2:-Send Mail With HTML Text
Create a method in your class as:-

	public void sendMailWithHTMLFormat() {
	InternetAddress fromAddress = null;
	InternetAddress toAddress = null;

	try {
	fromAddress = new InternetAddress("aa665845@gmail.com");
	toAddress = new InternetAddress("xxx@gmail.com");
	MailMessage mailMessage = new MailMessage();
	mailMessage.setTo(toAddress);
	mailMessage.setFrom(fromAddress);
	mailMessage.setSubject("Testing mail with HTML Text");
	mailMessage.setBody("<h3><font color = RED>This Mail Comes From Liferay Is Easy</font></h3>");
	mailMessage.setHTMLFormat(true);
	MailServiceUtil.sendEmail(mailMessage);
	System.out.println("Send mail with HTML Format");
	} catch (AddressException e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
	}
	}

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Explanation:-
Here we use two things:-

In mailMessage.setBody("") we use HTML tags.
And setHTMLFormat(true).

Output:-

Note:- If you setHTMLFormat(false) than mail is sent successfully but the HTML tags are print as normal Text.

Scenario 3:-Send Mail With Attachment

Create a method in your class as:-

	public void sendMailWithAttachment() {
	InternetAddress fromAddress = null;
	InternetAddress toAddress = null;
	File file = new File("H:\\Certificate.pdf");
	String fileName = "Chess Certificate.pdf";
	try {
	fromAddress = new InternetAddress("aa665845@gmail.com");
	toAddress = new InternetAddress("adit2787@gmail.com");
	MailMessage mailMessage = new MailMessage();
	mailMessage.setTo(toAddress);
	mailMessage.setFrom(fromAddress);
	mailMessage.setSubject("Sending mail with Attachment");
	mailMessage.setBody("Sending a File by Liferay Is Easy that Contain PDF file in Attachment");
	mailMessage.addFileAttachment(file, fileName);
	MailServiceUtil.sendEmail(mailMessage);
	System.out.println("Send mail with Attachment");
	} catch (AddressException e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
	}
	}

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Explanation:-
Here we are using addition method addFileAttachment that take two arguments first is File object and second is Name that you want to given to attachment.

Output:-