Gettting attachments using JAVAMAIL

Question

Hi,
I am dealing with an application which wants me to go through the mailbox and get the attachments of specific emails. These attachments are of different kinds. The attachments can vary from being rtf document, to Word, html, fo.. documents.. I got this skeleton code from the tutorial but dont know what to fill in..
if (disposition == null) {
// Check if plain
MimeBodyPart mbp = (MimeBodyPart)part;
if (mbp.isMimeType("text/plain")) {
// Handle plain
} else {
// Special non-attachment cases here of
// image/gif, text/html, ...
What is it meant by handling plain? How do i handle html, worf, rtf documents.. Thanks a lot in advance.. Thanks
Abhishek

Answer 1

Try this as a reference. It works PERFECTLY. Ignore the comments.
//If the content is ATTACHMENT
filename = part.getFileName();
if (filename != null) {
filename = filename.trim();
if(filename.equalsIgnoreCase(fileNameDownload.trim())) {
                                        //System.out.println("Downloading DOWN 1");
                                        session_id = this.DL_sessionid;
                                        directory = ATTACHMENTPath + m_user + "_" + session_id + "/";
                                        if(download) {
                                             pushFile(part.getFileName(),part.getInputStream(),resp);
                                        } else {
                                             saveFile(part.getFileName(), directory, part.getInputStream(), resp);
                                   filectr++;
     private void saveFile(String fileName, String Directory, InputStream input, HttpServletResponse resp)
          String myfile="";
          try
               //Correct the file name;
               String p_filename = javaFileParser(fileName);
               File newDir = new File(Directory);
               //Check if the directory does not exists!
               if(!newDir.exists()) { //If it doesn't..
                    //Create the directory
                    newDir.mkdir();
               String complete_path = Directory + p_filename;
               File myFile=new File(complete_path);
               //Check if a filename like this already exists!
               if(myFile.exists()) {
                    //If it does..
                    //delete the current file residing into the directory
                    myFile.delete();
               //Write the file (START)
               FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(myFile);
               BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(fos);
               BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(input);
               int aByte;
               while ((aByte = bis.read()) != -1)
               bos.write(aByte);
               bos.flush();
               bos.close();
               bis.close();
               //(END)
          catch (Exception x)
               System.out.println("Error : " + x);
     private void pushFile(String fileName,InputStream input, HttpServletResponse resp)
          try
               //Download the file to the Client's machine
               ServletOutputStream stream = resp.getOutputStream();
               resp.setContentType("application/octet-stream");
               resp.setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment;filename="+fileName.trim()+";");
               //BufferedInputStream fif = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(complete_path));
               BufferedInputStream fif = new BufferedInputStream(input);
               int data;
               while((data = fif.read()) != -1)
               stream.write(data);
               stream.flush();
               fif.close();
               stream.close();
          catch (Exception x)
               System.out.println("Error : " + x);
     private String javaFileParser(String filename)
          //System.out.println("In EmailObject javaFileParser");
          String n_filename="";
          //Check if the file starts with '=?iso8859'
          //If it does, it will need parsing
          if(filename.startsWith("=?iso")) {
               n_filename = filename.substring(15,filename.lastIndexOf("?"));
          } else
               n_filename = filename;
          return n_filename;
I suggest don't use JavaMail.. It has BUGS on some other email type. If not in POP3 then in IMAP.. Specialy when it receives "Enriched" contents types. Better yet don't use Java. It has lots of Bugs.