Re: [Classpathx-javamail] Re: Q: Building complex MIME messages

[Chris Burdess]

Adam Bradley wrote:
> >>I've been writing a little application which will help me move from my
> >>current remote mailbox format to a different format, mbox.
> >>
> >>My 'example' source message is the following
> >>
> >>                                 1
> >>                               /   \
> >>                              2     3 (file)
> >>                           /     \
> >>                          4       5
> >>                         / \     / \
> >>                        6   7   8   9
> >>                      (file) \       \
> >>                             11      10
> >>                               \
> >>                                12
> >>
> >>Does anyone have any grand ideas how I might go about doing this? 
> >>Current I'm going through each message in turn and recording what the
> >>MessageID(s) of its children and prepending the previous entry such that:
> >>
> >>1    2,3
> >>2    4,5,3
> >>4    6,7,5,3
> >>6    -,7,5,3
> >>7    11,5,3
> >>11    5,3
> >>5    8,9,3
> >>8    -,9,3
> >>9    10,3
> >>10    -,3
> >>3    -
> >>
> >>From this, I want to build a MIME message and maintain the hierarchy 
> >>within the subsequent message.
> >
> >
> >You don't have to rebuild the message. Just call appendMessages on the
> >mbox folder with the old message. If you want to make a copy of a
> >MimeMessage for some reason, use the MimeMessage(MimeMessage)
> >constructor.
> 
> I didn't explain myself well enough, the source message format isn't MIME.

I see.

So, is the tree above a tree of messages contained in a message? or a
tree of entities which have MIME types contained in a message? or a tree
of messages in a folder?
-- 
Chris Burdess