For a web application I'm working on I made a method to send email notifications. The message has to come from a specific account, but I would like the "from" header field to read as an entirely different email address. Here is my code (I've changed the actual email addresses to fake ones):
public static boolean sendEmail(List<String> recipients, String subject, String content){
String header = "This is an automated message:<br />"+"<br />";
String footer = "<br /><br />unsubscribe link here";
content = header + content + footer;
Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
props.put("mail.smtp.port", "587");
Session session = Session.getInstance(props,
new javax.mail.Authenticator() {
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
//This is where the email account name and password are set and can be changed
return new PasswordAuthentication("ACTUAL.ADRESS@gmail.com", "PASSWORD");
}
});
try{
MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
try {
message.setFrom(new InternetAddress("FAKE.ADDRESS@gmail.com", "FAKE NAME"));
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
message.setReplyTo(new Address[]{new InternetAddress("no-reply@gmail.com")});
for(String recipient: recipients){
message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.BCC,new InternetAddress(recipient));
}
message.setSubject(subject);
message.setContent(content,"text/html");
Transport.send(message);
return true;
}catch (MessagingException mex) {
mex.printStackTrace();
return false;
}
}
For the above method sending an email with it will have the following email header:
from: FAKE NAME <ACTUAL.ADRESS@gmail.com>
I want it to read:
from: FAKE NAME <FAKE.ADRESS@gmail.com>
What am I doing wrong? Any help is appreciated!