Unexpected RuntimeException from org.apache.tika.parser.mail.RFC822Parser
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                 Key: TIKA-678
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-678
             Project: Tika
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: parser
    Affects Versions: 0.9
         Environment: java 64bit ubuntu 11.04
            Reporter: Izaak Alpert
         Attachments: test.txt

I get this exception from the tika-app with the command line:

java -jar tika-app-0.9.jar -t test.txt 
Exception in thread "main" org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException: Unexpected 
RuntimeException from org.apache.tika.parser.mail.RFC822Parser@558041e0
        at 
org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:199)
        at 
org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:197)
        at 
org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser.parse(AutoDetectParser.java:135)
        at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI$OutputType.process(TikaCLI.java:107)
        at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI.process(TikaCLI.java:302)
        at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI.main(TikaCLI.java:91)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
org.apache.tika.parser.mail.MailContentHandler.field(MailContentHandler.java:130)
        at 
org.apache.james.mime4j.parser.MimeStreamParser.parse(MimeStreamParser.java:121)
        at org.apache.tika.parser.mail.RFC822Parser.parse(RFC822Parser.java:60)
        at 
org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:197)
        ... 5 more


It seems that what is really just a text file is identified as mail. I guess 
i'd expect this would fall back to a text parser if the mail processor can't 
handle it (the CC: can be optionally there).

The content of test.txt (i'll attach it as well)
cat test.txt 
From: xyz, abc
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 4:21 PM
To: abc, def
Cc: eft,hij; [email protected]
Subject: abcd

foo:

bar biz bat




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