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| <div class="section"><h2>Mime4j<a name="Mime4j"></a></h2> | |
| <p> | |
| Apache James Mime4J is developed by the | |
| <a class="externalLink" href="http://james.apache.org/">Apache James</a> team but now has a | |
| dedicated <a class="externalLink" href="http://james.apache.org/mail.html#Mime4j">mailing list</a>. | |
| </p> | |
| <p>Apache James Mime4J provides a parser, | |
| <a href="apidocs/org/apache/james/mime4j/parser/MimeStreamParser.html"> | |
| <tt>MimeStreamParser</tt> | |
| </a>, for e-mail message streams in plain rfc822 and MIME | |
| format. The parser uses a callback mechanism to report parsing | |
| events such as the start of an entity header, the start of a | |
| body, etc. If you are familiar with the <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.saxproject.org/">SAX</a> XML parser interface | |
| you should have no problem getting started with mime4j. </p> | |
| <p> The parser only deals with the structure of the message stream. | |
| It won't do any decoding of base64 or quoted-printable encoded | |
| header fields and bodies. This is intentional - the parser | |
| should only provide the most basic functionality needed to build | |
| more complex parsers. However, mime4j does include facilities to | |
| decode bodies and fields and the <tt>Message</tt> class | |
| described below handles decoding of fields and bodies | |
| transparently. </p> | |
| <p> The parser has been designed to be extremely tolerant against | |
| messages violating the standards. It has been tested using a | |
| large corpus (>5000) of e-mail messages. As a benchmark | |
| the widely used perl <tt>MIME::Tools</tt> | |
| parser has been used. mime4j and MIME:Tools rarely differ | |
| (<25 in those 5000). When they do (which only occurs | |
| for illegally formatted spam messages) we think mime4j does a | |
| better job. </p> | |
| <p> mime4j can also be used to build a tree representation of an | |
| e-mail message using the | |
| <a href="apidocs/org/apache/james/mime4j/message/Message.html"> | |
| <tt>Message</tt> | |
| </a> class. Using this facility mime4j automatically handles the | |
| decoding of fields and bodies and uses temporary files for large | |
| attachments. This representation is similar to the | |
| representation constructed by the JavaMail API:s but is more | |
| tolerant to messages violating the standards. </p> | |
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