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

[Adam Bradley]

Chris Burdess wrote:
> 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?

Sorry for the delay - had to sleep!

Each number represents a message within the main message, with 3 and 6 
file attachments.

Adam