How to send emails to multiple recipients using SMTP?

Earlier we send an email to a single recipient using SMTP in Java, and this post will discuss how to send an email to multiple recipients using SMTP.

The Below code will send an email to a single recipient –

import java.util.Properties;
 
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Transport;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
 
public class Codekru {
 
    public void sendEmail(String toEmailAddress, String fromEmailAddress, String appPassword, String subject,
            String bodyText) {
        Properties prop = new Properties();
        prop.put("mail.smtp.auth", true);
        prop.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
        prop.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
        prop.put("mail.smtp.port", "587");
        prop.put("mail.smtp.ssl.protocols", "TLSv1.2");
 
        Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(prop);
        Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
 
        try {
            message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(fromEmailAddress));
 
            message.addRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, InternetAddress.parse(toEmailAddress)); // setting "TO" email address
            message.setSubject(subject); // setting subject
            message.setText(bodyText);  // setting body
 
            System.out.println("Sending Email...");
            Transport t = session.getTransport("smtp");
 
            t.connect(fromEmailAddress, appPassword);
            t.sendMessage(message, message.getAllRecipients());
            t.close();
 
        } catch (MessagingException e) {
 
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        System.out.println("Email sent successfully...");
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
 
        Codekru codekru = new Codekru();
        String toEmailAddress = "[email protected]";
        String fromEmailAddress = "[email protected]";
        String appPassword = "****";  // Enter your app password here
        String subject = "Test Subject";
        String body = "Test Body";
        codekru.sendEmail(toEmailAddress, fromEmailAddress, appPassword, subject, body);
 
    }
 
}
Now, how can we send emails to multiple recipients?

We can pass the comma-separated email addresses to send emails to multiple recipients.

String toEmailAddress = "[email protected],[email protected]";

The whole code will look like this –

import java.util.Properties;
 
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Transport;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
 
public class Codekru {
 
    public void sendEmail(String toEmailAddress, String fromEmailAddress, String appPassword, String subject,
            String bodyText) {
        Properties prop = new Properties();
        prop.put("mail.smtp.auth", true);
        prop.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
        prop.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
        prop.put("mail.smtp.port", "587");
        prop.put("mail.smtp.ssl.protocols", "TLSv1.2");
 
        Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(prop);
        Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
 
        try {
            message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(fromEmailAddress));
 
            message.addRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, InternetAddress.parse(toEmailAddress)); // setting "TO" email address
            message.setSubject(subject); // setting subject
            message.setText(bodyText);  // setting body
 
            System.out.println("Sending Email...");
            Transport t = session.getTransport("smtp");
 
            t.connect(fromEmailAddress, appPassword);
            t.sendMessage(message, message.getAllRecipients());
            t.close();
 
        } catch (MessagingException e) {
 
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        System.out.println("Email sent successfully...");
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
 
        Codekru codekru = new Codekru();
        String toEmailAddress = "[email protected],[email protected]";
        String fromEmailAddress = "[email protected]";
        String appPassword = "****";  // Enter your app password here
        String subject = "Test Subject";
        String body = "Test Body";
        codekru.sendEmail(toEmailAddress, fromEmailAddress, appPassword, subject, body);
 
    }
 
}

Output –

Sending Email...
Email sent successfully...

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