Recently, a couple of students have asked me the same question:<\/p>\n
“I need to authenticate users (other students) in my diploma thesis application with their faculty credentials. Is there a way to do this?”<\/p>\n
The faculty student server (i.e. www.scs.ubbcluj.ro) offers two public services: IMAP (on TCP port 993) and SMTP (on TCP port 465). You can use either of these two services to authenticate a user. Just be sure you have the JavaMail<\/a> jar in your classpath. Since April 2017 the JavaMail API is available as an open source project on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is a sample piece of code, just pass the username and the password as command line parameters.<\/p>\n Recently, a couple of students have asked me the same question: “I need to authenticate users (other students) in my diploma thesis application with their faculty credentials. Is there a way to do this?” The faculty student server (i.e. www.scs.ubbcluj.ro)… Continue Reading import java.util.Properties;\r\nimport javax.mail.internet.*;\r\nimport javax.mail.*;\r\n\r\npublic class JavaMailAuthentication {\r\n\r\n public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {\r\n\r\n String host = \"example.com\"; \/\/ replace example.com with your own host\r\n Properties props = System.getProperties();\r\n props.put(\"mail.store.protocol\", \"imaps\");\r\n props.put(\"mail.imaps.port\", 993);\r\n props.put(\"mail.imaps.host\", host);\r\n\r\n javax.mail.Session mailSession = javax.mail.Session.getInstance(props, null);\r\n Store store = mailSession.getStore();\r\n try {\r\n store.connect(host, 993, args[0], args[1]);\r\n System.out.println(\"Password is ok\");\r\n } catch (Exception e) {\r\n System.out.println(\"Password is not ok\");\r\n }\r\n }\r\n\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"