Unable to send email using TIBCO BW6 on Windows.

Unable to send email using TIBCO BW6 on Windows.

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Article ID: KB0094192

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Products Versions
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks -
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Description

Description:
SendMail activity in BW 6.x fails when the application is running on Windows. However, a BW 5.x application with the same configuration works fine.
Symptoms:
When running the application with SendMail activity, the application fails with the following error:

javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: <host_name>, port: <port>

Test connection for SMTP resource shows the below error:

Configuration error in field [Host] and/or [port], the value must be a valid hostname and/or port

Cause:
The reason for the error is that IPv6 is defaulted on Windows starting from JDK 7.

Resolution

Add the following property in the JVM arguments. Run Configuration dialog in Studio or appNode.tra file.

"-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true"

Issue/Introduction

Unable to send email using TIBCO BW6 on Windows.

Additional Information

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7477712/sending-email-using-jsp/7478027#7478027
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