ADDRESS parse error in java mail

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to retrieve the mails header and I get following error.
javax.mail.MessagingException: Failed to load IMAP envelope: foldername=INBOX[uidvalidity:1222323518] : seqnum=1
After digging source code of java mail I found that one of bad address is causing this problem. One of message is having following format of address.
("test" R "test" NIL "test1" "test.net.au").
According to specifications (RFC 2060) address should have four component personal name, [SMTP] at-domain-list (source route), mailbox name, and host name. When java mail tries parse this address it throws address parsing exception.
Is anyone have come across this issue? I want to know is there any way to handle this scenario. Since other mail client seems to handle it e.g. thunderbird
Regards
Anupriya

Answer 1

I'm using java mail 1.4.1. I downloaded the code from https://glassfish.dev.java.net/javaee5/mail//index.html and I haven't made any changes to code.
I'm running msgshow.java program. I'm not running in any app server or web server.
and following is output from program as i was mentioning earlier it's happening when I try to get the size of the message.
DEBUG: setDebug: JavaMail version 1.4.1
DEBUG: getProvider() returning javax.mail.Provider[STORE,imap,com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc]
DEBUG: mail.imap.fetchsize: 16384
* OK IMAP4 server (InterMail vM.7.05.02.03 201-2174-114-109-20070208) ready Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:22:06 +0000 (GMT)
A0 CAPABILITY
* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS NAMESPACE QUOTA
A0 OK CAPABILITY completed
DEBUG: protocolConnect login, host=test.com, [email protected], password=<non-null>
A1 LOGIN [email protected] pass
A1 OK LOGIN completed
A2 CAPABILITY
* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS NAMESPACE QUOTA
A2 OK CAPABILITY completed
DEBUG: connection available -- size: 1
A3 SELECT INBOX
* 24 EXISTS
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1222323518] UIDs valid
* OK [UIDNEXT 1031] Predicted next UID
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)] Permanent flags
* 0 RECENT
A3 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
Getting message number: 20
A4 FETCH 20 (BODY[])
* 20 FETCH (BODY[] {569}
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from [127.0.0.1] by nssas01t.mx.test.com
(InterMail vM.7.05.02.08 201-2174-114-118-20080528) with SMTP
id <20071127054828.IKXY25226.nssas01t.mx.test.com@[127.0.0.1]>
for <[email protected]>; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:48:28 +0000
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2008 21:52:25 -0800 (PST)
From: "Test" R "Us"<[email protected]>
Subject: afternoon meeting 1
To: [email protected]
Message-Id: <20071127054828.IKXY25226.nssas01t.mx.test.com@[127.0.0.1]>
Hello
A4 OK FETCH completed
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from [127.0.0.1] by nssas01t.mx.test.com
(InterMail vM.7.05.02.08 201-2174-114-118-20080528) with SMTP
id <20071127054828.IKXY25226.nssas01t.mx.test.com@[127.0.0.1]>
for <[email protected]>; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:48:28 +0000
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2008 21:52:25 -0800 (PST)
From: "Test" R "Us"<[email protected]>
Subject: afternoon meeting 1
To: [email protected]
Message-Id: <20071127054828.IKXY25226.nssas01t.mx.test.com@[127.0.0.1]>
Hello
A5 FETCH 20 (FLAGS)
* 20 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
A5 OK FETCH completed
A6 FETCH 20 (ENVELOPE INTERNALDATE RFC822.SIZE)
* 20 FETCH (ENVELOPE ("Mon, 7 Feb 2008 21:52:25 -0800 (PST)" "afternoon meeting 1" (("Test" R "Us" NIL "auto_786" "test.com")) (("Test" R "Us" NIL "auto_786" "test.com")) (("Test" R "Us" NIL "auto_786" "test.com")) ((NIL NIL "auto_786" "test.com")) NIL NIL NIL "<20071127054828.IKXY25226.nssas01t.mx.test.com@[127.0.0.1]>") INTERNALDATE "17-Nov-2008 05:48:46 +0000" RFC822.SIZE 569)
A6 OK FETCH completed
Oops, got exception! Failed to load IMAP envelope
javax.mail.MessagingException: Failed to load IMAP envelope
     at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPMessage.loadEnvelope(IMAPMessage.java:1226)
     at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPMessage.getSize(IMAPMessage.java:387)
     at javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage.<init>(MimeMessage.java:229)
     at msgshow.main(msgshow.java:232)