Class SimpleMessageAttributes

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    MailMessageAttributes

    public class SimpleMessageAttributes
    extends Object
    implements MailMessageAttributes
    Attributes of a Message in IMAP4rev1 style. Message Attributes should be set when a message enters a mailbox.

    Note that the message in a mailbox have the same order using either Message Sequence Numbers or UIDs.

    reinitialize() must be called on deserialization to reset Logger Reference: RFC 2060 - para 2.3

    Version:
    0.2 on 04 Aug 2002
    Author:
    Sascha Kulawik, Charles Benett
    • Method Detail

      • getMessageSequenceNumber

        public int getMessageSequenceNumber()
        Provides the current Message Sequence Number for this message. MSNs change when messages are expunged from the mailbox.
        Returns:
        int a positive non-zero integer
      • getUID

        public int getUID()
        Provides the unique identity value for this message. UIDs combined with a UIDValidity value form a unique reference for a message in a given mailbox. UIDs persist across sessions unless the UIDValidity value is incremented. UIDs are not copied if a message is copied to another mailbox.
        Returns:
        int a 32-bit value
      • getReceivedDate

        public Date getReceivedDate()
        Description copied from interface: MailMessageAttributes
        Provides the date and time at which the message was received. In the case of delivery by SMTP, this SHOULD be the date and time of final delivery as defined for SMTP. In the case of messages copied from another mailbox, it shuld be the internalDate of the source message. In the case of messages Appended to the mailbox, example drafts, the internalDate is either specified in the Append command or is the current dat and time at the time of the Append.
        Specified by:
        getReceivedDate in interface MailMessageAttributes
        Returns:
        Date imap internal date
      • getEnvelope

        public String getEnvelope()
        Description copied from interface: MailMessageAttributes
        Provides the Envelope structure information for this message. This is a parsed representation of the rfc-822 envelope information. This is not to be confused with the SMTP envelope!
        Specified by:
        getEnvelope in interface MailMessageAttributes
        Returns:
        String satisfying envelope syntax in rfc 2060.
      • getBodyStructure

        public String getBodyStructure​(boolean includeExtensions)
        Description copied from interface: MailMessageAttributes
        Provides the Body Structure information for this message. This is a parsed representation of the MIME structure of the message.
        Specified by:
        getBodyStructure in interface MailMessageAttributes
        Parameters:
        includeExtensions - true if the body structure extensions should be included
        Returns:
        String satisfying body syntax in rfc 2060.