Mail framework

[Markus Trenkle]

Hi all,

could someone recommend a Mail framework? It should be able to read
mails from a pop3 account and provide it in a standard format for
further processing.

I alread tried sun's JavaMail, but there I would have to write a lot of
code myself to get all the character set and attachment combinations
that occur in real life. Especially I have to be shure that this works
as our experience with mail and testing possibilities are very limited.

Thanks,
Markus

 

[Roedy Green]

could someone recommend a Mail framework?

You might look at the JStreet Mailer if you want an entire Java-based
email client.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/email.html

 

[Roedy Green]

You might look at the JStreet Mailer if you want an entire Java-based
email client.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/email.html
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I think it is now called Polarbar (not PolarBear)

 

[Markus]

Thank you for your information. Unfortunately this is not quite what I
need. I'm not writing an email client for human use, but for server
processing of incoming mails. The results have to be stored in a
database. I should have been more specific on this.

Markus

 

[Greg R. Broderick]

(e-mail address removed) (Markus Trenkle) wrote in

could someone recommend a Mail framework? It should be able to read
mails from a pop3 account and provide it in a standard format for
further processing.

You might also look at Apache commons net. It contains
implementations of POP3, SMTP and NNTP protocols. See:
<http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/>.

Faced with a similar need (in my case, I'd needed to send emails
potentially containing different character sets and MIME types), I'd
found JavaMail more suitable to my needs, however.

Especially I have to be shure that this works as our experience with
mail and testing possibilities are very limited.

I would STRONGLY encourage you to change this before attempting to
implement a programmatically-controlled email client in Java. To do
otherwise is to invite failure. At a bare minimum, I would encourage you
to be very familiar with:

RFC 822
RFC 2822

RFC 1049
RFC 2045 - 2049
RFC 2231
RFC 2111

RFC 1939
RFC 2449


Cheers
GRB