Fetching address book from yahoomail,gmail,hotmail...

Question

Hi ALL,
I am going to develop the java project which has some additional services.One of the service is to fetch the address book of Gmail,HotMail,YahooMail.For that i dont know how to start.Can anyone provide me an idea for doing this task.
If you provide sample code for fetching addres book of any one public services(yahoo,hotmail) is very helpfull to me.I am in very tough situation.Please give your solution as soon as possible.
Thanks,
Sourab

Answer 1

Can any one say me how to set proxy server settings, i need to pass ProxyHost,port,System username,password.
my code below, it is throwing above exception, Please any one help to rectify problem
package javaTest;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.mail.Session;
import com.xdatasystem.contactsimporter.Contact;
import com.xdatasystem.contactsimporter.ContactListImporter;
import com.xdatasystem.contactsimporter.ContactListImporterFactory;
public class test {     
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub          
          Properties systemSettings = System.getProperties();
          systemSettings.put("http.proxyHost", "10.9.32.3");
          systemSettings.put("http.proxyPort", "3128");
          System.setProperties(systemSettings);
          SMTPAuthenticator auth = new SMTPAuthenticator();
          auth.getPasswordAuthentication();     
          ContactListImporter importer=ContactListImporterFactory.guess("[email protected]", "urslovingly");
          List contacts=importer.getContactList();
          Iterator itr=contacts.iterator();
          while(itr.hasNext())
               Contact c=(Contact)itr.next();
          System.out.println("name: "+c.getName()+", email: "+c.getEmail());
import javax.mail.Authenticator;
import javax.mail.PasswordAuthentication;
public class SMTPAuthenticator extends Authenticator {
     public PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
          String username = null;
          String password = null;
          try {
               username = "hari.prasad";
               password = "venkateswara";
          } catch (Exception e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password);
}