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Googles Gmail SMTP server supports the use of TLS (Transport Layer Security). When using a Gmail SMTP server with Javamail we can configure Javamail to use TLS using the session properties.

	    Properties props = new Properties();
	    props.put("mail.transport.protocol", "smtp"); 
	    props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true"); 
	    props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com"); 
	    props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true"); 
    // use your gmail account username here
	    props.put("mail.smtp.user", "username@gmail.com");
	    props.put("mail.smtp.port", "465");
	    props.put("mail.mime.charset", "ISO-8859-1");
	    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", "465");
	    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback", "false");
	    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class", "javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory");

You’ll also need to specify an Authenticator when creating the session.

You can then use the session to send your mail.

Putting it all together we get this

// Create session
    
Properties sessionProperties = System.getProperties();
props.put("mail.transport.protocol", "smtp"); props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true"); 
props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com"); 
props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true"); 
// use your gmail account username here
props.put("mail.smtp.user", "username@gmail.com");
props.put("mail.smtp.port", "465");
props.put("mail.mime.charset", "ISO-8859-1");
props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", "465");
props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback", "false");
props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class", "javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory");
Session session = 
   Session.getDefaultInstance(sessionProperties, new PasswordAuthenticator());
    
// Create message
    
Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, 
   InternetAddress.parse(to, false));
message.setSubject(subject);
message.setText(body);

// Send the message

Transport.send(message); 

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