JavaMail Spring boot properties does not recognize properties - spring-boot

Question

I have a spring boot application with javamail, i configure spring.properties but it seems to not take properties to send email.
#mail properties
spring.mail.host = smtp.gmail.com
spring.mail.port = 587
spring.mail.username = eeee#gmail.com
spring.mail.password = eeee
spring.mail.protocol = smtp
spring.mail.defaultEncoding=UTF-8
spring.mail.smtp.starttls.enable=false
spring.mail.smtp.starttls.required=false
spring.mail.smtp.auth=true
spring.mail.smtp.connectiontimeout=5000
spring.mail.smtp.timeout=5000
spring.mail.smtp.writetimeout=5000
here the java code to send email
#Service
public class MailSenderServiceImpl implements IMailSenderService{
#Autowired
JavaMailSender mailSender;
#Override
public void sendEmailStatusNotification(Shipment shipment) throws IOException, MessagingException{
final MimeMessage mimeMessage = this.mailSender.createMimeMessage();
final MimeMessageHelper message = new MimeMessageHelper(mimeMessage, "UTF-8");
message.setFrom(shipment.getSender().getSenderEmail());
message.setTo(new String[] {shipment.getRecipient().getRecipientEmail()});
message.setSubject("Shipment "+shipment.getTrackingNumber()+"status update");
message.setText("the shipment status is now :"+shipment.getStatus().getLabel());
this.mailSender.send(mimeMessage);
}
pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-mail</artifactId>
</dependency>
here we see this error
org.springframework.mail.MailSendException: Mail server connection failed; nested exception is com.sun.mail.util.MailConnectException: Couldn't connect to host, port: localhost, 25; timeout -1;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect. Failed messages: com.sun.mail.util.MailConnectException: Couldn't connect to host, port: localhost, 25; timeout -1;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect; message exceptions (1) are:
Failed message 1: com.sun.mail.util.MailConnectException: Couldn't connect to host, port: localhost, 25; timeout -1;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
Any idea ?

Answer 1

By default spring.properties is not a properties source, try putting them in application.properties.