Hi,

sorry about that, there is a bug in 1.8.0 for plain email. mime email 
might work but requires mail.jar and activation.jar on the classpath.

If you want to use plain email, you could try to build ant from source.

Regards,

Antoine

ravensock wrote:
> We've upgraded from ANT 1.6.5 to 1.8.0. But sending mails does not work as
> we've been used to it.
> Trying to send an email from the my daily build in case there was some error
> leads to "Failed to send email". No matter what kind of encoding I use.
>
> See below my debug output to the mini project "sendfailmail".
> ((Using ANT 1.6.5 this works fine - there I have "[mail] Using UU mail". And
> the mail will be sent.))
>
> Can anyone let me know whether this is a bug ??
> Can we somehow use some other ant-task to still use mailing?
> If this is a bug, when can we approx. take this in account?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help
> Sigrid
>
> --------------------------------
> encoding defaults to "mime"
> [mail] Failed to send email: javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage
>
> encoding = "uu"
> [mail] Failed to send email: Failed to initialise encoding: uu
>
> encoding = "plain"
> [mail] Failed to send email: socket closed
> BUILD FAILED
> D:\Ant\apache-ant-1.8.0\testMail.xml:5: IO error sending mail
>         at
> org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.email.PlainMailer.send(PlainMailer.java:113)
>         at
> org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.email.EmailTask.execute(EmailTask.java:571)
>         at
> org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
>
> This is my test-project
> <project name="sendfailmail">
> <mail from="my@address" mailhost="mailhost"
>       tolist="whoever"
>       subject="Build failed message">
>       <message>the build failed in unit xxx</message>
>       </mail>
> </project>
>
>   


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