Retrieving email messages from file instead of POP3, PHP, etc.

Question

I am reluctant to have an account password sitting in my code. Instead, I've taken the maildat file that sendmail uses to store mail for my account and mirrored it in a file that my application can read.
I'd already written all the mail processing I wanted using the JavaMail API. Instead of accessing this file through a server feeding it to me through POP3, I now want to create Messages from the mail file directly.
How do I do this? I can't find any JavaMail object constructors that take a file as source.
Thanks,
rocketscienceguy

Answer 1

javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage
public MimeMessage(Session session, java.io.InputStream is)
     throws MessagingException
Constructs a MimeMessage by reading and parsing the data from the specified MIME InputStream. The InputStream will be left positioned at the end of the data for the message. Note that the input stream parse is done within this constructor itself.