I have a Spring Boot application that sends emails. For any action that requires notification, a Mail
instance is created with status PENDING
in the database and a job is run to send the pending emails every minute. The status of the Mail
instances are set as PENDING
, SENT
or FAILED
.
try {
Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
props.put("mail.smtp.host", host);
props.put("mail.smtp.port", port);
props.put("mail.smtp.from", myEmailAddress);
props.put("mail.smtp.timeout", 2000);
Session session = Session.getInstance(props, new javax.mail.Authenticator() {
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password);
}
});
MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
MimeMultipart content = getContent(mail, message, username);
message.setContent(content);
Transport.send(message);
mail.setStatus(MailStatus.SENT);
mailService.save(mail);
} catch (MailConnectException mce) {
mail.setStatus(MailStatus.FAILED);
mailService.save(mail);
} catch (Exception e) {
// other actions
}
Now, this works fine if a valid email id is provided. But when the receiving email address is a non-existent one like somerandomname@gmail.com
, there are no exceptions thrown. From what I read from similar questions in SO and elsewhere, I understand that mail sending is an asynchronous process and hence there is no way to determine that a given email is existing or not (or other issues like Inbox full). That is why after the Transport.send(message);
statement, the mail.setStatus(MailStatus.SENT);
statement will always be executed irrespective of the email address being present. Later the mail will actually be attempted to be sent and I get an email in myEmailAddress
with content like the following:
The response from the remote server was: 550 5.1.1 somerandomname@gmail.com User unknown
Okay, accepted until this point. But now I need a way to alert the user that the email couldn't be sent because they entered an invalid email so that they can update their email. More specifically, I need to set the status of the Mail
instance to FAILED
. What is the best way to achieve this?