In this example we create a small program to send email with a file attachment. To send message with attachment we need to create an email with javax.mail.Multipart object which basically will contains the email text message and then add a file to the second block, which both of them is an object of javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart. In this example we also use the javax.activation.FileDataSource.

package org.kodejava.example.mail;

import javax.activation.DataHandler;
import javax.activation.FileDataSource;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Properties;

public class EmailAttachmentDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EmailAttachmentDemo demo = new EmailAttachmentDemo();
        demo.sendEmail();
    }

    public void sendEmail() {
        String from = "email@example.com";
        String to = "email@example.com";
        String subject = "Important Message";
        String bodyText = "This is a important message with attachment";
        String filename = "jee-sample/src/main/resources/data.txt";

        Properties properties = new Properties();
        properties.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.example.com");
        properties.put("mail.smtp.port", "25");
        Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(properties, null);

        try {
            MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
            message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
            message.setRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(to));
            message.setSubject(subject);
            message.setSentDate(new Date());

            //
            // Set the email message text.
            //
            MimeBodyPart messagePart = new MimeBodyPart();
            messagePart.setText(bodyText);

            //
            // Set the email attachment file
            //
            MimeBodyPart attachmentPart = new MimeBodyPart();
            FileDataSource fileDataSource = new FileDataSource(filename) {
                @Override
                public String getContentType() {
                    return "application/octet-stream";
                }
            };
            attachmentPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(fileDataSource));
            attachmentPart.setFileName(fileDataSource.getName());

            Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart();
            multipart.addBodyPart(messagePart);
            multipart.addBodyPart(attachmentPart);

            message.setContent(multipart);

            Transport.send(message);
        } catch (MessagingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}