Solution To SMTPSendFailedException: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS

In case you encounter this error message when using JavaMail to connect to, say, GMail’s SMTP server, there is one property that needs to be present, mail.smtp.starttls.enable = true.

If, however the same error message persists, the following properties need to be added in order for this to work.

• mail.smtp.socketFactory.port = 465
• mail.smtp.socketFactory.class = javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory
• mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback = false

There, that should fix that annoying STARTTLS error message using JavaMail.

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