Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi,

I am trying to send an email through a java servlet using the javamail api.

I am not using any authentication (which worked perfectly till two days ago) to send my emails.

Now whenever my servlet tries to send an email I get the following exception:

javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException

Sending failed;
nested exception is:
class javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException

Now all our servlets and jsps are hosted by a third party hosting provider. The servlet is on the same domain so, the smtp host is specified as 'localhost'.

Now those exceptions will not reappear with a tomcat restart, but only for a short period after which they reappear and all the emails do not go through.

Does anyone has any explanation with this??

I believe that probably our hosting people messed up tomcat security policy or something like that.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
DL