Funny you are working on this. I needed such a library a month ago! --emi
On Feb 9, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Ioan Eugen Stan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > This is the second try to get the message on the mailing list. > > I've started working on a small project called mbox-iterator that I wish > to integrate with mime4j later, when it's more usable. It's purpose is > to provide a iterator like interface over mbox files. Details about the > project are here [1]. > > I'm bringing it on because I think this would be a nice addition to > mime4j and I need some help. > > One thing that I can't figure out is: does mime4j do charset decoding? I > haven't looked over the code but I know it expects a stream of bytes. > > mbox-iterator does regexp matching to find From_ lines and that requires > a CharSequence. This means I have use/return CharBuffer's from the > iterator. The CharBuffers need to be re-encoded and streamed as bytes > (maybe with ByteArrayInputStream). > > In the future I plan to use git-svn to experiment new stuff but I would > like to get it fast into mime4j. What do you think? > > > [1] > http://ieugen.blogspot.com/2012/02/nio-iterator-over-messages-in-mbox-file.html > > Cheers, > -- > Ioan Eugen Stan > http://ieugen.blogspot.com/
