Convert an email into its raw format using java

Question

I tried until now to create an object of type MimeMessage using JavaMail api, and after that to obtain its raw representation, but with no success. The only thi

Answer 1

What you are looking for is MimeMessag#writeTo which outputs the message as an RFC 822 format stream.

An example of using writeTo to convert a MimeMessage to a String.

MimeMessage mimeMessage;

// mimeMessage get assigned

ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
mimeMessage.writeTo(output);
String rawEmail = output.toString();