Read email Message and process it

Question

Hai friends..
I've just started working with the mail API.. I've gone through the code samples but couldn't get a clear picture on how to extract the body of an email message in some mailbox of mine.. Let me elabourate..
I have an email account say [email protected] which is an smtp based account
smtp address = smtp.mail.xyz.net
pop address = pop.mail.xyz.net
authentication id = abc, password = passwd
I want to extract the contents of an email residing in my INBOX using a java program.. Can somebody send a sample code of how to do this
Warm egards
Dst

Answer 1

Try something like:
Store store = null;
Folder folder = null;
try
// Get a Properties object
Properties props = System.getProperties();
// Get a Session object
Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
// Get a Store object
store = session.getStore("pop3"));
store.connect("mail.hostname.com", -1, "username", "password");
// Open the Folder
Folder root = store.getDefaultFolder();
if (root == null || !root.exists()) {
System.err.println("No default folder");
return;
folder = root.getFolder("INBOX");
if (folder == null || !folder.exists()) {
System.err.println("Unable to located folder INBOX");
return;
folder.open(Folder.READ_WRITE);
int totalMessages = folder.getMessageCount();
if (totalMessages == 0)
return;
// Attributes & Flags for all messages ..
Message[] msgs = folder.getMessages();
// Use a suitable FetchProfile
FetchProfile fp = new FetchProfile();
fp.add(FetchProfile.Item.ENVELOPE);
fp.add(FetchProfile.Item.FLAGS);
folder.fetch(msgs, fp);
for (int i = 0; i < msgs.length; i++)
// Do something with msgs;
// Do this to have msg deleted when you close mailbox
msgs[i].setFlag(Flags.Flag.DELETED, true);
catch (NoSuchProviderException e)
System.err.println("Unable to process mail for protocol of '" +
getMailProtocol());
catch (AuthenticationFailedException e)
System.err.println("The username/password was not accepted for the supplied host and port");
catch (MessagingException e)
System.err.println("Unable to process the mail: " + e.getMessage());
finally
if (folder != null)
try
folder.close(true);
catch (Exception e)
if (store != null)
try
store.close();
catch (Exception e)