JavaMail: fetching html email body.

Question

Hi there,
I'm having a problem fetching an email html body using JavaMail. When I get the content, the html tags are stripped away, only the data of the html page comes back. I need the content with the html tags. The protocol that I use is imap.
Any solutions out there ?
Thanks
Francois

Answer 1

OK - probably the message is a multipart:
Message (MULTIPART/*)
+ Part (TEXT/PLAIN)
+ Part (TEXT/HTML)
Check this. Try this:
   Part HTML = getHtmlPartOutOf(m);
public Part getHtmlPartOutOf(Part p){
   // PURPOSE: Return the first found text/html part in this part (if it has subparts) or null if no text/html
   // is found
   if(p.isMimeType("text/html")){
      return p; // It already is HTML
   else if(p.isMimeType("multipart/*")){
      // go into the multipart, but recursively...
      Multipart mp = (Multipart)p.getContent();
      for(int i = 0; i < mp.getCount(); i++){
         Part subpart = mp.getBodyPart(i);
         Part p = getHtmlPartOutOf(subpart);
         if(p != null){
             return p;
   // Nothing found if it gets there
   return null;
}But beware: this code will only work for pure MIME messages. Messages encoded with TNEF (What Microsoft does, I refer to the thread "Worth Reading: I hate Microsoft") will not be browsed recursively.
Mike