Re: Extract parts from a Multipart/Related email using Java Mail API

Hi everyone,

Thanks for everyone's replies.

I should have included a code snippet - I do know how to pull apart
emails according to their mime body part, but my question is how to
further extract the various headers (thanks to Derek above for this
suggestion) a body part that is coded multipart/related - the email
body contains both Text and an embedded Image

code snippet (apologies how it pasted):

BTW what is that post with all the links in it by arabzwaj50?)

//logon to pop3 server
//connect to store
//open inbox folder

Message messages[] = inboxFolder.getMessages();

for (int i=0, n=messages.length; i<n; i++)
{

Object content = messagePart.getContent();

if (content instanceof Multipart)
{
    processMultipartContent(content, myNote); //myNote is object to
hold parts/subject etc
}
else
{
    //not multipart email
    String contentType = messagePart.getContentType();
    if (contentType.startsWith("text/plain") ||
contentType.startsWith("text/html"))
    {
        myNote.setMsgBody((String) messagePart.getContent());
    }
}

  //save myNote to database etc

//process the multipart - works for everything except text with inline
object eg company email with text and company logo in body of email

private static void processMultipartContent(Object content, Note nt)
    {

        Part[] pa = null;

        int i = 0;
        Part p = null;

        try
        {
            //loop through body parts
         Multipart mp = (Multipart) content;
         pa = new Part[mp.getCount()];

            for(int j = 0; j< mp.getCount(); j++ )
            {
             p = mp.getBodyPart(j);

             System.out.println(p.getContentType());

             // this code works fine except for emails with inline
attachements and messages

             if (p.getContentType().startsWith("text/plain") ||
p.getContentType().startsWith("text/html"))
             {
             nt.setMsgBody(nt.getMsgBody() + " " + (String)
p.getContent());
             }
             else //save all other mime content types to directory
             {

                //this is where the body of multipart/related email is
getting put together into a single part at the moment. This is where I
need help on how to loop thru multipart/related headers(?)

             pa[i] = p;
      i++;
             }

            } //end for

        }
        catch(Exception e){e.printStackTrace();}
        finally
        {
            //add array attachments
            nt.attachments = pa;

            //clean up
            p = null;
            pa = null;
        }
    } //processMultipartContent

}