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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:08:18 +0100
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Subject: Re: using mime4j to work with IMAP messages?
From: Norman Maurer <norman@apache.org>
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Hi Kristian,
 why not use MimeMessage.getRawInputStream() as source for Mime4j ?

Bye,
Norman


2009/11/9 Kristian Rink <lists@zimmer428.net>:
> Folks;
>
> maybe a pretty basic question (sorry if so), but at least browsing the
> mime4j documentation didn't really get me very far here: I want to integrate
> mime4j with an environment that so far uses javax.mail to pull messages off
> IMAP and have them processed (i.e. extract textual content, store
> attachments, ...). For what I have seen so far, the mime4j parsers do
> _rather_ well here, but most examples just rely upon operating on top of
> message files stored somewhere on a hard drive whereas I want to use
> messages accessible via IMAP rather than that.
>
> Is there any way of doing so? Am I so far missing the point how to get it
> done, or will copying the message to some temporary file be the only way to
> go here?
>
> TIA and all the best,
> Kristian
>