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POJavaMail, no exception is thrown if the receivers mail are wrong
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copied!<p>This codesnippet, sends a mail:</p> <pre><code>if (m.send()) { Log.i("MAIL SENDER: ", "Succesfully"); Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "The log file has been sent", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); } else { throw new MailException(); } </code></pre> <p>If the receivers mail isn't correct, e.g <code>example@gmail.co</code> instead of <code>example@gmail.com</code> the code runs into the first if-block. Why does this happend when the receivers isn't correct. Could anyone help me out here? </p> <p>The mail settings is retrieved from SharedPreferences, and checked in this method:</p> <pre><code>public static boolean isValidEmailAddress(String email) { boolean result = true; try { InternetAddress emailAddr = new InternetAddress(email); emailAddr.validate(); } catch (AddressException ex) { result = false; } return result; } </code></pre> <p>When the user types in a email address in the textfield and hit Ok this is whats happening:</p> <pre><code>if (isValidEmailAddress(mail)) editor.putString("Tomail", mail); else Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Invalid", Toast.LENGHT_LONG).show(); </code></pre> <p>This will only check if the mail contains a <code>@</code> and therefor its valid. </p> <p>In my send method:</p> <pre><code>public SendMail(Context c) { this(); sharedPrefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(c); _host = sharedPrefs.getString("host", null); _port = sharedPrefs.getString("port", null); _sport = sharedPrefs.getString("port", null); _user = sharedPrefs.getString("mail", null); _pass = sharedPrefs.getString("pw", null); } public boolean send() throws Exception { Properties props = _setProperties(); if (!_user.equals("") && !_pass.equals("") && _to.length > 0 && !_from.equals("") && !_subject.equals("") && !_body.equals("")) { Session session = Session.getInstance(props, new GMailAuthenticator(_user, _pass)); MimeMessage msg = new MimeMessage(session); msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(_from)); InternetAddress[] addressTo = new InternetAddress[_to.length]; for (int i = 0; i < _to.length; i++) { addressTo[i] = new InternetAddress(_to[i]); } msg.setRecipients(MimeMessage.RecipientType.TO, addressTo); msg.setSubject(_subject); msg.setSentDate(new Date()); // setup message body BodyPart messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart(); messageBodyPart.setText(_body); _multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart); // Put parts in message msg.setContent(_multipart); // send email Transport.send(msg); return true; } else { return false; } } </code></pre>

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