FAQ

Everything you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask).

How to parse EML files?

What if you have your emails stored in EML files? Not a problem! Use EMLParser.create().parse(). It accepts both file or files content as an input and returns ReceivedEmail of parsed EML message.

Gmail and new messages count?

Gmail does not support the Recent flags on messages. Since the getNewMessageCount() method counts messages with the RECENT flags, Jodd will not (yet) find any such messages on Gmail servers (hence always returning value 0).

Can't access Gmail?

Getting the following exception when accessing Gmail:

[ALERT] Please log in via your web browser:

Allow access for less secured apps:

How to parse and validate an email address?

We use RFC2822AddressParser class to parse, clean up, and extract email addresses parsing email addresses per RFC2822 syntax. It can be trusted to only provide authenticated results. This class has been successfully used on many billion real-world addresses, live in production environments, but it's not perfect yet, since the standard is quite complex. Unlike InternetAddress, this class will preserve any RFC-2047-encoding of international characters.

I am getting an exception when receiving emails?

It may happen that email receiving fails if you have different java-mail libraries on your classpath. For example, on Apache CXF there is geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec-1.7.1.jar and it conflicts with the Jodd Email.

Is embed attachment always supposed to be inline?

Here is how we see it:

• inline and content-ID can be set separately.

• embedded images should be set using Content-Disposition. Of course, setting content-ID is required if you want to use them.

• we could not find any reference of inline without a content-ID.

The answer is Yes - embedded attachment sets both content-ID and inline.