Java Mail

[pravar]

Hello

I have a mail program where while sending mail i am setting it to
msg.setDataHandler( new DataHandler( new ByteArrayDataSource(
email_msg , "text/html" ) )) is it possible to convert the email
message in "MIME Part: TEXT/PLAIN" format while reading . If it is
possible then which api should we use to convert.

 

[Roedy Green]

I have a mail program where while sending mail i am setting it to
msg.setDataHandler( new DataHandler( new ByteArrayDataSource(
email_msg , "text/html" ) )) is it possible to convert the email
message in "MIME Part: TEXT/PLAIN" format while reading . If it is
possible then which api should we use to convert.

you want to render the html as if you had a Lynx text browser.
see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/htmlrendering.html Perhaps someone has
done a simple text html renderer in Java. Possibly Lynx itself could
be co-erced into rendering for you and coughing up the results.

A very primitive version would just strip HTML tags.

See http://mindprod.com/quoter.html which has a strip HTML tags and a
convert HTML entities to chars function. You can cannibalise that
code. You could soup it up to recognize <p> and <hr> and replace with
NLs and you would have something that could do in a pinch.