How to get the entire MIME message from a BodyPart?

Question

Hi there,
I am new to javaMail and quite lost with its way of working.
I have a tool that creates SMIME stuff that needs to be put into MIME envelopes. In the same time I have to manage parsing of simple MIME messages.
My current problem is the following:
I have a BodyPart and I am testing if it is SMIME or not (with checks on the ContentType). If it is, then I want to retrieve the entire MIME message (I mean, the the whole text stuff with the headers and the -possibly- encoded64 content) as a String or a byte[]. But I haven't found anything in BodyPart that returns such a thing (everything is about the content). There might be writeTo() but it gives need an output stream that if piped in a pipedinputstream results in a dead lock...
Help please!!
Lionel

Answer 1

hai
i think you can use the methods in the MimeMessage to get the headers of the message
by using any one the following
1) getAllHeaders() use the enumeartion concept and then get the values for the headers using the getHeader(enum.getNextElements())
2) or use the specific methods such as
getFrom()
getAllRecepients()
getContentType()
3) getHeader(string headername)
bye