Re: Problem with parsing MimeMessage from InputStream

Robert Mitchell wrote:
> I have some code where I want to parse a section of a message (read 
> from IMAP) as a MIME message using "new MimeMessage(session, 
> part.getInputStream())".  The input stream uses CRLF as line breaks, 
> but the code which parses the headers treats only the LF as the end of 
> line, leaving the CR on the end of each header line.  Worse, this 
> means that the blank line which separates the headers from the body 
> becomes a line containing a CR, meaning the end of the headers is 
> never detected.
>  
> I've traced it to code in InternetHeaders which uses a LineInputStream 
> to parse the headers.

Right: in all other paths we supply an input stream that is already 
wrapped by CRLFInputStream, but evidently not this one.

> It is possible that all that needs to be done is to use an instance of 
> CRLFInputStream as an intermediate wrapper.  Unfortunately, I do not 
> know the overall system well enough to be sure that would not have 
> unexpected consequences on other call paths into the InternetHeaders 
> constructor.

I believe that's the right thing to do, and I've updated 
InternetHeaders. Please let us know if this causes any other problems.
-- 
Chris Burdess