Has anyone gotten SMTP to send mail?

This should be a no brainer, but apparently I don't even qualify: I'm trying to send email via smtp. That's it. nothing fancy. Just an email. Here's My config:

<mule xmlns="http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/core/2.1"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:vm="http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/vm/2.1"
       xmlns:spring="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xmlns:file="http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/file/2.1"
       xmlns:jms="http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/jms/2.1"
       xmlns:smtp="http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/smtp/2.1"
       xmlns:email="http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/email/2.1"
       xmlns:xm="http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/xml/2.1"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
       http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/core/2.1 http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/core/2.1/mule.xsd
       http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/file/2.1 http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/file/2.1/mule-file.xsd
       http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/jms/2.1 http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/jms/2.1/mule-jms.xsd
       http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/smtp/2.1 http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/smtp/2.1/mule-smtp.xsd
       http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/email/2.1 http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/email/2.1/mule-email.xsd
       http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/vm/2.1   http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/vm/2.1/mule-vm.xsd
       http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/xml/2.1 http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/xml/2.1/mule-xml.xsd">
       
       
       
         
       
       
       
       
        <smtp:connector name="smtpConnector" contentType="text/plain"
                fromAddress="cde@example.com" replyToAddresses="def@example.com"
                subject="subject">
                <smtp:header key="foo" value="bar" />
                <smtp:header key="baz" value="boz" />
        </smtp:connector>
       
       
       
         <email:string-to-email-transformer name="StringToEmailMessage"/>
       
       
        <model>
       
       
       
                <service name="muleMailService">
                        <description>This is an example use of the mule mailer service. this service
                        is a generic service that will mail a message to a group of recipients
                        It can configure the following:
                           group list of recipients
                           text/plain, text/html
                           
            </description>
                        <inbound>
                                <vm:inbound-endpoint  path="mailPath" />
                        </inbound>
          <outbound>
                                <pass-through-router>
                                        <smtp:outbound-endpoint    transformer-refs="StringToEmailMessage" host="MYSERVER" port="25"  connector-ref="smtpConnector" />
                                </pass-through-router>
                        </outbound>
                </service>
        </model>
</mule>

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Things to note, the string to email transformer is applied, and it contains debug output that shows that it is working:

2009-01-06 11:42:36 | DEBUG  | org.mule.transport.email.transformers.StringToEmailMessage |  249 | Object before transform: org.mule.transport.DefaultMessageAdapter/org.mule.transport.DefaultMessageAdapter@82254d{id=67adcf52-dc19-11dd-ac6a-4f28288f7b72, payload=java.lang.String, correlationId=67adcf52-dc19-11dd-ac6a-4f2828...
2009-01-06 11:42:36 | DEBUG  | org.mule.transport.email.transformers.StringToEmailMessage |  114 | Constructing email using:
To: MYSERVER From: cde@example.comCC: nullBCC: nullSubject: subjectReplyTo: def@example.comContent type: text/plainPayload type: java.lang.StringCustom Headers: {baz=boz, foo=bar}


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if I try to route this through tcpmon using a different port, I can't get it to send the correct headers, because the transformer is what composes the javax.mail.message. If I use the port and host on the endpoint, then I get a "illegal character in internet address error" since the transformer concatenates the host and port, THEN validates it (I'll look into that more in the future and issue a JIRA if its real).

I can route it through tcpmon if I give it the mail port of 25 localhost, and point that to my mail server. Here is what tcpmon reports as my conversation (this would be coming out from Mule):

EHLO DHenton
QUIT


If I use tcpmon to monitor the conversation of a simple javax.mail message,  the sent portion of the conversation looks like this:


EHLO DHenton
MAIL FROM:<testinfo>
RCPT TO:<dhenton@myserver.com>
DATA
From: testinfo
To: dhenton@anyserver.com
Message-ID: <29887233.01231257239595.JavaMail.dyh@DHenton>
Subject: Hello JavaMail
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Welcome to JavaMail


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In my hands, MULE isn't forwarding the email message.




Any help would be appreciated. There should be a simple way to send email, but I'm dashed if I can get it to work.