Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hello,

I am trying to send a mail and use a smtp Server which is located on the internet. I am however behind a firewall and am getting the following exception being thrown:

javax.mail.MessagingException: Unknown SMTP host:

This implies that I need to provide some settings for my proxy server. I though to solve this problem I could do the following:


System.getProperties().put("proxySet", "true");
System.getProperties().put("http.proxyHost", proxyHost);
System.getProperties().put("http.proxyPort", proxyport);


This however does not solve me problem as I still get the above exception. Could someone please give help me. Any suggestions,solutions or ideas as to what the problem might be would be appreciated.

Thanks much,
Alex.