Dear mime4j developers,
for one of my projects I have been using mime4j successfully to import
e-mail into our CRM database for some two years know.
Currently I am trying to add a feature which would allow reading Mozilla
Thunderbird Mailbox content.
As of mime4j 0.8 there seems to be a MboxIterator which could do that.
Since I didn't find any publicly available source repository which I
could use to access the 0.8-Snapshop I have copied
the three source files:
* CharBufferWrapper.java
* FromLinePatterns.java
* MboxIterator.java
into my source tree and I am using these together with the following
maven dependency:
<!-- EMail handling -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.james</groupId>
<artifactId>apache-mime4j-core</artifactId>
<version>0.7.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.james</groupId>
<artifactId>apache-mime4j-dom</artifactId>
<version>0.7.2</version>
</dependency>
The iterator works somewhat o.k. on some of the Thunderbird mailbox
files and loops thru the mails in it correctly.
The mails can than not be directly parsed with mime4j - there is one
newline at the begining which spoils the show. After
working around this it's working as expected in some cases. In other
cases there is an error:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: File does not contain From_ lines!
Maybe not be a vaild Mbox.
at
org.apache.james.mime4j.mboxiterator.MboxIterator.initMboxIterator(MboxIterator.java:85)
at
org.apache.james.mime4j.mboxiterator.MboxIterator.<init>(MboxIterator.java:75)
at
org.apache.james.mime4j.mboxiterator.MboxIterator.<init>(MboxIterator.java:62)
at
org.apache.james.mime4j.mboxiterator.MboxIterator$Builder.build(MboxIterator.java:241)
at
com.bitplan.clientutils.ThunderbirdMailArchiveImpl.getMailById(ThunderbirdMailArchiveImpl.java:386)
at
com.bitplan.clientutils.ThunderbirdMailArchiveImpl.getMailById(ThunderbirdMailArchiveImpl.java:261)
at
com.bitplan.clientutils.rest.TestMailAccess.testMailById(TestMailAccess.java:77)
By the way - there is a typo in the above error message "vaild" should
be "valid".
The error is something I'd like to fix or work-around.
I have two big user accounts with several hundred mailbox files and some
300.000 mails from the last 15 years which I'd like
to use as a testcase against which to run the mime4j implementation.
Would you please supply me with some pointers where I get the necessary
source code and how i could supply patches and
testcases for the project?
Also it would be good to know whether others would be interested in the
Thunderbird Mailbox reading capability.
Cheers
Wolfgang
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