Java

Fetch an IMAP Message as MIME Text

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.FetchSingleAsMime method, which downloads one message and returns its MIME source as a string. If the second argument (bUid) is true, the first argument is a UID; otherwise it is a sequence number. This example fetches message 1's raw MIME.

Background: Sometimes you want the message exactly as it exists on the server — the raw MIME — rather than a parsed Email object. That is what you save to a .eml file, feed to another parser, or archive verbatim. This method returns the MIME as text; for messages that may contain binary data, the BinData variant FetchSingleBd preserves the exact bytes.

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import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Imap;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Demonstrates the Imap.FetchSingleAsMime method, which downloads one message and returns
        // its MIME source as a string.  If the 2nd argument (bUid) is true, the 1st argument is a
        // UID; otherwise it is a sequence number.

        Imap imap = new Imap();

        imap.setSsl(true);
        imap.setPort(993);

        String mime;
        try {
            imap.connect("imap.example.com");

            imap.login("user@example.com", "myPassword");

            imap.selectMailbox("Inbox");

            // Download message sequence number 1 and return its raw MIME.  bUid = false.
            mime = imap.fetchSingleAsMime(1, false);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println(mime);

        try {
            imap.disconnect();
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }
    }
}