error : javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart while reading the email content

Question

I have the following code to read the Gmail email using Java. If the email is having very simple plain text message, then the code is working fine and I am able to see the content of the (body) being displayed properly.

But, for some emails I see the following message while I try to

display body (CONTENT:javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart@2038ae61)

. I am finding difficult to fix this issue. Please help me.

Code :

import java.util.Properties;

import javax.activation.DataHandler;
import javax.mail.Address;
import javax.mail.BodyPart;
import javax.mail.Folder;
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.Multipart;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Store;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart;

public class Experiment {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Properties props = new Properties();
        props.setProperty("mail.store.protocol", "imaps");
        try {
            Session session = Session.getInstance(props, null);
            Store store = session.getStore();
            store.connect("imap.gmail.com", "[email protected]",
                    "password");
            Folder inbox = store.getFolder("INBOX");
            inbox.open(Folder.READ_ONLY);
            Message msg = inbox.getMessage(inbox.getMessageCount());
            Address[] in = msg.getFrom();
            for (Address address : in) {
                System.out.println("FROM:" + address.toString());
            }

            // showContent(msg);


            Multipart mp = (Multipart) msg.getContent();
            BodyPart bp = mp.getBodyPart(0);
            System.out.println("SENT DATE:" + msg.getSentDate());
            System.out.println("SUBJECT:" + msg.getSubject());
            System.out.println("CONTENT:" + bp.getContent());


        } catch (Exception mex) {
            mex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

Answer 1

This is a complete file attachments reading solution:

    final Map<String, byte[]> attachments = new HashMap<>();
    try {
        if ( mailMessage.getContentType().contains("multipart") && mailMessage.getContent() instanceof Multipart ) {
            final Multipart multiPart = (Multipart) mailMessage.getContent();
            for ( int i = 0; i < multiPart.getCount(); i++ ) {
                final MimeBodyPart part = (MimeBodyPart) multiPart.getBodyPart(i);
                if ( Part.ATTACHMENT.equalsIgnoreCase(part.getDisposition()) ) {
                    final String fileName = MimeUtility.decodeText(part.getFileName());                        
                    final byte[] bytes = IOUtils.toByteArray(part.getInputStream());
                    attachments.put(fileName, bytes);                    }
            }
        }
    } catch (final IOException | javax.mail.MessagingException e) {
        throw new IllegalStateException(e);
    }
    attachments.forEach(( f, c ) -> {
        System.out.println("filename: " + f + " content:" + new String(c));
    });

Answer 2

This as works for me

  String contentType = msg.getContentType();
    String messageContent="";

   if (contentType.contains("multipart")) {
        Multipart multiPart = (Multipart) message.getContent();
        int numberOfParts = multiPart.getCount();
        for (int partCount = 0; partCount < numberOfParts; partCount++) {
            MimeBodyPart part = (MimeBodyPart) multiPart.getBodyPart(partCount);
                messageContent = part.getContent().toString();
        }
    }
    else if (contentType.contains("text/plain")
            || contentType.contains("text/html")) {
        Object content = message.getContent();
        if (content != null) {
            messageContent = content.toString();
        }
    }
     System.out.println(" Message: " + messageContent);