i'm looking into sending email notifications from ...

# server

[damian]

i'm looking into sending email notifications from my backend (ktor, exposed), does someone have experience with this and can suggest me a library? i found a couple on github so far but not sure which way to go.

[nfrankel]

are you using an application server?
the spring framework?
a bit more context would be helpful 🙂

[damian]

i'm using ktor for my server app, so no spring. it's running as standalone with netty; so far it's pretty basic, except for quartz for job scheduling there are not many dependencies, and im not sure what kind of context would be helpful otherwise

[damian]

i don't think i'd want to set-up a mail server (sounds like overkill for my notification use-case) but instead connect to an existing SMTP server and send mails through that

[nfrankel]

there’s Apache Commons Email
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-email/
though i never used it

[damian]

thanks, i'll take a look at it. what would be your go-to solution for email sending?

[damian]

or rather what did you use so far?

[nfrankel]

in general, i use an application server
last time (it was a while ago)
i used the resource configured in the app server
and simple JavaMail
nowadays, i could probably push to use spring as it simplifies its usage

[tipsy]

@damian i wrote a tutorial for using commons with gmail: https://javalin.io/tutorials/email-sending-example-kotlin

[tipsy]

it's for javalin, but the actual code for email sending is completely standalone, so it'll work fine with ktor

[Velastroll]

@tipsy still working? i have a ktor server and when i tried to send mails, i got a connection timeout. I tried both with different accounts as with different smtp servers, but the result is the same.

[tipsy]

If your using the approach from my tutorial the timeout shouldn't be related to ktor

[Velastroll]

@tipsy Yeah, i'm agree with you. I was under a reverse proxy. Works great!