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.
> 
> 
> I see.
> 
> So, is the tree above a tree of messages contained in a message? or a
> tree of entities which have MIME types contained in a message? or a tree
> of messages in a folder?

Sorry for the delay - had to sleep!

Each number represents a message within the main message, with 3 and 6 
file attachments.

Adam