Bug 463953

Summary: problem with default javamail configuration
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Pam Callaway <pamcallaway>
Component: javamailAssignee: Fernando Nasser <fnasser>
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Description Pam Callaway 2008-09-25 17:32:56 UTC
Description of problem:
Hudson (a continuous integration server) cannot send emails on Fedora 8.  This works on Windows.  The Hudson people claim it is due to broken GNU javamail.

Their issue tracker:
https://hudson.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2161

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install and configure hudson per website instructions (https://hudson.dev.java.net/).
2. Manage Hudson -> Email Notification
3. Use gmail as the smtp provider (directions here: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287)
4. Save
5. Send test email
  
Actual results:
javax.mail.NoSuchProviderException: smtp
	at javax.mail.Session.getService(Session.java:782)
	at javax.mail.Session.getTransport(Session.java:708)
	at javax.mail.Session.getTransport(Session.java:651)
	at javax.mail.Session.getTransport(Session.java:631)
	at javax.mail.Session.getTransport(Session.java:686)
	at javax.mail.Transport.send0(Transport.java:166)
	at javax.mail.Transport.send(Transport.java:98)
	at hudson.tasks.Mailer$DescriptorImpl.doSendTestMail(Mailer.java:384)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:623)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function$InstanceFunction.invoke(Function.java:103)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndinvoke(Function.java:57)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$1.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:75)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:30)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:409)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$6.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:173)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:30)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:409)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:352)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:112)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
	at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:61)
	at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:53)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:52)
	at hudson.security.UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.doFilter(UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.java:28)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
	at org.acegisecurity.ui.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:166)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
	at org.acegisecurity.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilter(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:125)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
	at org.acegisecurity.ui.rememberme.RememberMeProcessingFilter.doFilter(RememberMeProcessingFilter.java:142)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
	at org.acegisecurity.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:271)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
	at org.acegisecurity.ui.basicauth.BasicProcessingFilter.doFilter(BasicProcessingFilter.java:173)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
	at org.acegisecurity.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:249)
	at hudson.security.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.java:42)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:55)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:44)
	at hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:85)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172)
	at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:433)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:875)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:675)


Expected results:
Email was successfully sent


Additional info:
This works on other architectures I've tried.

Comment 1 Pam Callaway 2008-09-25 18:00:39 UTC
I was able to fix this by downloading sun's jdk and using jpackage to get the sun-mail.noarch package installed.

1. get sun's jdk on your system from sun.com
2. get the jpackage.repo and install it as mentioned here for yum: http://www.jpackage.org/yum.php
3. yum install sun-mail.noarch
4. service tomcat5 restart

Poof emailing now works.

Comment 2 Fernando Nasser 2008-10-07 14:25:58 UTC
Many other things use the GNU mail to send e-mail and it works fine (we even had an AppServer product that used it, and our partners still do).  I've seen e-mails comming up from my tests myself.

You probably copied the wrong JAR. GNU mail has the mail itself in one JAR and the 4 possible providers in separate JARs, so one can add only the ones that are desired, so they can be individually fixed etc.  There is an ubber JAR with everything, it used to be named with a '-monolithic' in the name.  If there weren't changes made to the Fedora package without my knowledge it should still be there.  Try using it or adding the smtp provider to the smaller one.

Comment 3 Pam Callaway 2008-10-07 17:58:04 UTC
I did not copy any JARs, this is what came installed by default on Fedora.  The jpackage stuff fixed it.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 11:10:57 UTC
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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 07:52:48 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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