Play Version

1.5.3

Operating System

Ubuntu 18.04

JDK

Oracle 1.8.0_201-b09

Description

Sending email using the SimpleMail class, as explained in

https://www.playframework.com/documentation/1.5.x/emails

via an SSL-enabled SMTP server fails with

javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException: 535 Incorrect authentication data

(at least) in a scenario where the password includes special characters.

Keeping the credentials untouched and adding

- com.sun.mail -> javax.mail 1.6.2:
       force: true

to the app's dependencies.yml and executing

play dependencies

fixes the issue.

Therefore, Play's own dependencies.yml's javax.mail version should be upgraded.

While at it, one can also upgrade apache commons email to 1.5.

- org.apache.commons -> commons-email 1.5