Using Javamail to connect to Gmail smtp server ignores specified port and tries to use 25

In Java you would do something similar to:

Transport transport = session.getTransport("smtps");
transport.connect (smtp_host, smtp_port, smtp_username, smtp_password);
transport.sendMessage(msg, msg.getAllRecipients());
transport.close();    

Note ‘smtpS’ protocol. Also socketFactory properties is no longer necessary in modern JVMs but you might need to set ‘mail.smtps.auth’ and ‘mail.smtps.starttls.enable’ to ‘true’ for Gmail. ‘mail.smtps.debug’ could be helpful too.

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