Loading multiple messages from disk?

Question

Hey there!
I'm writing a mail app (isn't everyone these days?) which saves Messages in a file called mbox. When I want to load the Messages from the mbox into the app, I'm calling 'new MimeMessage((Session)null, inputStream) which reads the message. However, there are multiple messages in that file, and a single constructor call reads ALL the messages.
How do I make it read one message into one MimeMessage() successively?
here's the code. there are around 10 messages in the file, but they are all read in during the first 'new MimeMessage()'.
public static MimeMessage[] retrieveMessagesFromDisk()
     MimeMessage[] msgs = new MimeMessage[40];
     FileInputStream is = null;
     try {
          is = new FileInputStream("c:\\greatmail\\mbox");
     } catch (IOException e) {
          System.out.println("new FileInput IOException! "+e.getMessage());
     for(int count=0; count<40; count++) {
          try {
               msgs[count] = new MimeMessage( (Session)null , is);
               System.out.println("retrieveMessagesFromDisk: read message "+count+", "+msgs[count].getSize()+" bytes.");
          } catch (MessagingException e) {
               System.out.println("Message "+count+" construct MessagingException! "+e.getMessage());
               break;
     try {
          is.close();
     } catch (IOException e) {
          System.out.println("is.close() writeTo IOException! "+e.getMessage());
     return(msgs);

Answer 1

nobody has any idea?