Java Email message Parser?
I have had problems with JavaMail (it fails to parse some email messages that it should).
I have had much better results with Mime4J.
JavaMail is an oracle library that provides mail services and mail related services (like parsing conventional & MIME messages) in the javax.mail package. Additionally Apache has a Commons Email library for mail handling.
In the JavaMail api, a simple way to parse a string containing an email message (which may or may not be explicitly MIME) would be as follows
String content = ...
Session s = Session.getInstance(new Properties());
InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(content.getBytes());
MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(s, is);
and parsing the headers could be done like this
message.getAllHeaderLines();
for (Enumeration<Header> e = message.getAllHeaders(); e.hasMoreElements();) {
Header h = e.nextElement();
h.getName();
h.getValue();
}
I would suggest you use email-mime-parser,
Following sample code gives you all the relevant info you need:
ContentHandler contentHandler = new CustomContentHandler();
MimeConfig mime4jParserConfig = new MimeConfig();
BodyDescriptorBuilder bodyDescriptorBuilder = new DefaultBodyDescriptorBuilder();
MimeStreamParser mime4jParser = new MimeStreamParser(mime4jParserConfig,DecodeMonitor.SILENT,bodyDescriptorBuilder);
mime4jParser.setContentDecoding(true);
mime4jParser.setContentHandler(contentHandler);
InputStream mailIn = 'Provide email mime stream here';
mime4jParser.parse(mailIn);
Email email = ((CustomContentHandler) contentHandler).getEmail();
List<Attachment> attachments = email.getAttachments();
Attachment calendar = email.getCalendarBody();
Attachment htmlBody = email.getHTMLEmailBody();
Attachment plainText = email.getPlainTextEmailBody();
String to = email.getToEmailHeaderValue();
String cc = email.getCCEmailHeaderValue();
String from = email.getFromEmailHeaderValue();