Re: Q: Building complex MIME messages

Chris Burdess wrote:
> Adam Bradley wrote:
> 
>>I've been writing a little application which will help me move from my
>>current remote mailbox format to a different format, mbox.
>>
>>My 'example' source message is the following
>>
>>                                  1
>>                                /   \
>>                               2     3 (file)
>>                            /     \
>>                           4       5
>>                          / \     / \
>>                         6   7   8   9
>>                       (file) \       \
>>                              11      10
>>                                \
>>                                 12
>>
>>Does anyone have any grand ideas how I might go about doing this? 
>>Current I'm going through each message in turn and recording what the
>>MessageID(s) of its children and prepending the previous entry such that:
>>
>>1    2,3
>>2    4,5,3
>>4    6,7,5,3
>>6    -,7,5,3
>>7    11,5,3
>>11    5,3
>>5    8,9,3
>>8    -,9,3
>>9    10,3
>>10    -,3
>>3    -
>>
>>From this, I want to build a MIME message and maintain the hierarchy 
>>within the subsequent message.
> 
> 
> You don't have to rebuild the message. Just call appendMessages on the
> mbox folder with the old message. If you want to make a copy of a
> MimeMessage for some reason, use the MimeMessage(MimeMessage)
> constructor.

I didn't explain myself well enough, the source message format isn't MIME.

Adam