Socket connection refused in Client Code

Question

The below program causes this issue

EDITED:

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class smtpClient {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
// declaration section:
// smtpClient: our client socket
// os: output stream
// is: input stream
        Socket smtpSocket = null;  
        DataOutputStream os = null;
        DataInputStream is = null;
// Initialization section:
// Try to open a socket on port 25 : step 1
// Try to open input and output streams: step 2
        try {
            smtpSocket = new Socket("192.168.1.2", 1024);
            os = new DataOutputStream(smtpSocket.getOutputStream());
            is = new DataInputStream(smtpSocket.getInputStream());
        } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
            System.err.println("Don't know about host: hostname");
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println("Couldn't get I/O for the connection to: hostname");
        }
// If everything has been initialized then we want to write some data
// to the socket we have opened a connection to on port 25
    if (smtpSocket != null && os != null && is != null) {
            try {
// The capital string before each colon has a special meaning to SMTP
// you may want to read the SMTP specification, RFC1822/3
        os.writeBytes("HELO\n");    
                os.writeBytes("MAIL From: k3is@fundy.csd.unbsj.ca\n");
                os.writeBytes("RCPT To: k3is@fundy.csd.unbsj.ca\n");
                os.writeBytes("DATA\n");
                os.writeBytes("From: k3is@fundy.csd.unbsj.ca\n");
                os.writeBytes("Subject: testing\n");
                os.writeBytes("Hi there\n"); // message body
                os.writeBytes("\n.\n");
        os.writeBytes("QUIT");
// keep on reading from/to the socket till we receive the "Ok" from SMTP,
// once we received that then we want to break.
                String responseLine;
                while ((responseLine = is.readLine()) != null) {
                    System.out.println("Server: " + responseLine);
                    if (responseLine.indexOf("Ok") != -1) {
                      break;
                    }
                }
// clean up:
// close the output stream
// close the input stream
// close the socket
                os.close();
                is.close();
                smtpSocket.close();   
            } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
                System.err.println("Trying to connect to unknown host: " + e);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                System.err.println("IOException:  " + e);
            }
        }
    }           
}

Console Log :

Couldn't get I/O for the connection to: hostname

The program I took is from : http://www.javaworld.com/jw-12-1996/jw-12-sockets.html?page=4

I have already tried modifying the port from 25 to 1024
I am running it on my local PC, so I am admin on this system, but not sure if there is any default firewall issue(running this in eclipse on windows 7)

As per your comments below : DO I need to make a listner, which mean to say a Server Socket, which will listen to smtp client requests

Answer 1

Answer is: according to details what you have provided, there is no listener running or machine with specified IP and port number.

UPD: then you are trying to connect to somewhere you do have to be sure that there is something which listens on other side, either writing your own server code or by using a 3rd party server/code to provide certain service on a port number you are trying to reach.

Why would you expect that there is a mail server running on machine with an address you've provided?

Answer 2

It sounds like some other program is using port 1024.

Try a different port.