Of what types can a message be?

[Nikhil]

Hi,
If i retrieve a message using POP3 in a Message object and call the
getContentType() method on it, what all values can I get?(I know
"plain/text" and "Multipart/alternate")

If I want to display this message or store it somewhere(in some file)
how do I do that?(even for a Multipart message)

Thanks....

 

[Lars Enderin]

Nikhil skrev:

Hi,
If i retrieve a message using POP3 in a Message object and call the
getContentType() method on it, what all values can I get?(I know
"plain/text" and "Multipart/alternate")

You don't know much ... It's "text/plain" and "multipart/alternative".
There are other variants of text/ and multipart/. You should read the
RFCs. Try googling for multipart/alternative, or MIME.

If I want to display this message or store it somewhere(in some file)
how do I do that?(even for a Multipart message)

Depends on what you want to do. Read the API documentation.

 

[Joshua Cranmer]

Hi,
If i retrieve a message using POP3 in a Message object and call the
getContentType() method on it, what all values can I get?(I know
"plain/text" and "Multipart/alternate")

If I want to display this message or store it somewhere(in some file)
how do I do that?(even for a Multipart message)

Thanks....

plain/text, multiplart/alternative, and text/html are probably going to
be your most popular content types.

 

[Greg R. Broderick]

Hi,
If i retrieve a message using POP3 in a Message object and call the
getContentType() method on it, what all values can I get?(I know
"plain/text" and "Multipart/alternate")

See RFCs 2045 - 2049.

then see

http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types-parameters
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-type-sub-parameters

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