ioannis cherouvim

You’ve done everything right. You are using of the JavaMail API with the correct settings and still it doesn’t manage to connect to the SMTP host to dispatch the email. You are on a windows machine and the exception looks like:

javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: your.smtp.host, port: 25;
  nested exception is:
	java.net.SocketException: Software caused connection abort: connect
	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1545)
	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:453)
	at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:291)
	at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:172)
	at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:121)
	at javax.mail.Transport.send0(Transport.java:190)
	at javax.mail.Transport.send(Transport.java:120)
        ...
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Software caused connection abort: connect
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
	at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:519)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:469)
	at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.createSocket(SocketFetcher.java:267)
	at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.getSocket(SocketFetcher.java:227)
	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1511)
	... 40 more

One possibility is that something is blocking JavaMail from connecting to the local or a remote SMTP host, and this something can be an anti-virus.

via: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=590866

p.s Why would a sysadmin want a resident shield anti-virus on a production box serving web content via tomcat still remains a mystery to me

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