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Wingdom
Wingdom

Reputation: 449

Convert com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPMessage to string

I am retrieving a message from an IMAP server (Gmail), and trying to print it out, along with some information about it, ultimately to be stored in a string to be parsed later. I am printing out the following

System.out.println(message.getSubject());
System.out.println(message.getFrom()[0]);
System.out.println(message.getReceivedDate());
System.out.println(message.getContent().toString());

and this is what it prints out

Your Order with Amazon.com
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Tue Dec 30 23:14:01 EST 2008
javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart@6baa6838

The first 3 print out exactly what I am expecting, but the last one should be the entire message, should it not? If not, what do I need to do to get it to get the entire message as a string?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2618

Answers (2)

dsingleton
dsingleton

Reputation: 1006

It's because the MimeMultipart class doesn't implement the toString method. I haven't tested this, but you could always try this.

((MimeMultipart)message.getContent()).writeTo(System.out);

Like pointed out in another post though, be careful because it is not guaranteed to always return the MimeMultipart.

Upvotes: 0

jmcdale
jmcdale

Reputation: 4463

IMAPMessage extends MIMEMessage, and according to docs, the getContent() method returns an Object. The type of object is NOT guaranteed to be a String. In your case, the Object that is returned is a MIMEMultipart. Check out this FAQ answer and its example ( msgshow.java) for how to handle a MIMEMultipart object.

Upvotes: 2

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