>> What I believe we want is code that reads through the MIME content as a stream and issues callbacks for each header and part. For a part (counting the entire message as a part), I'd like to be able to get the raw stream and just read on it until the end of that scope. From that, we can do a lot. <<
Noel, did you ever find a solution for this? I could use the same for my IMAP project and am thinking about writing it if you haven't found anything usable. From what I've seen, it seems like MIME parsers should be really easy to write--except that many MIME producers seem not to follow the spec. (Danny, any tips?)
I know people aren't thrilled with the JavaMail parser, but the one thing it does very very well (meaning it takes a lot of effort) is spec implementation.
The API is not perfect, but really we just could use a lazy-instantiating version of javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart, and we'd have IMHO the best of both worlds. Continue to use the same familiar API and avoid loading the whole message into memory. I'm pretty sure we can just register with JavaMail to use a different parser, and then whenever it does hit a multipart type, it could use our parser code.
Anyway, just a random thought.
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