Multipart (html) email

[Tim Slattery]

I'm trying to figure out how to send a multipart email, one text part
and equivalent HTML part. I suppose it should be
multipart/alternative. This is what I've done:

Message msg = new MimeMessage(mailSession);
msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(returnAddress, returnName));
msg.setRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO,
newInternetAddress(rb.getTo()));

Multipart mp = new MimeMultipart("alternative");

// First part: plain text
MimeBodyPart mbp = new MimeBodyPart();
/* stripTags remove HTML tags from my text */
mbp.setText(stripTags(msgBody), "UTF-8", "plain");
mp.addBodyPart(mbp);

MimeBodyPart mbhtml = new MimeBodyPart();
mbhtml.setText(msgBody, "UTF8", "html");
mp.addBodyPart(mbhtml);
msg.setContent(mp);

Transport.send(msg);

And I get IO Exception, no content. I see a method in the javadoc for
MimeBodyPart: setText(text, charset, subtype), all three arguments
Strings. But the compiler says there is no such method.

So how the heck do I put content into this message?

 

[Lothar Kimmeringer]

I'm trying to figure out how to send a multipart email, one text part
and equivalent HTML part. I suppose it should be
multipart/alternative. This is what I've done: [...]

And I get IO Exception, no content. I see a method in the javadoc for
MimeBodyPart: setText(text, charset, subtype), all three arguments
Strings. But the compiler says there is no such method.

So how the heck do I put content into this message?

I saved time by not looking into my sources where I was doing that
for myself. Instead I was firing up my browser and were going to
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=javamail+create+multipart/alternative&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=
The first result is a discussion in the SUN-forum where a couple
of examples are shown. At least one should work.

In short. Instead of setText you should use setContent and the
Content-Types are not only "text" and "html" but "text/plain"
and "text/html".


Regards, Lothar
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[Arne Vajhøj]

I'm trying to figure out how to send a multipart email, one text part
and equivalent HTML part. I suppose it should be
multipart/alternative. This is what I've done:

Message msg = new MimeMessage(mailSession);
msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(returnAddress, returnName));
msg.setRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO,
newInternetAddress(rb.getTo()));

Multipart mp = new MimeMultipart("alternative");

// First part: plain text
MimeBodyPart mbp = new MimeBodyPart();
/* stripTags remove HTML tags from my text */
> mbp.setText(stripTags(msgBody), "UTF-8", "plain");

mbp.setText(stripTags(msgBody), "UTF-8");

mp.addBodyPart(mbp);

MimeBodyPart mbhtml = new MimeBodyPart();
mbhtml.setText(msgBody, "UTF8", "html");

mbhtml.setContent(msgBody, "text/html; charset=UTF-8");

mp.addBodyPart(mbhtml);
msg.setContent(mp);

Transport.send(msg);

And I get IO Exception, no content. I see a method in the javadoc for
MimeBodyPart: setText(text, charset, subtype), all three arguments
Strings. But the compiler says there is no such method.

Arne