Question

I am trying to modify existing MimeMessage body part. I would like to filter certain links. Does any of you know why even though body part content seams to be changed message is sent with old content? Is there some caching going on? Any idea how to solve this?

Here is my code:

public void resend(InputStream data) throws Exception {
    Session mailSession = createMailSession();
    //mailSession.setDebug(true);

    Transport transport = mailSession.getTransport();
    MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(mailSession, data);

    Object content = message.getContent();
    if (content.getClass().isAssignableFrom(MimeMultipart.class)) {
        MimeMultipart mimeMultipart = (MimeMultipart) content;

        for (int i = 0; i < mimeMultipart.getCount(); i++) {

            BodyPart bodyPart = mimeMultipart.getBodyPart(i);
            if (bodyPart.getContentType().startsWith("text/plain")) {
                String cnt = updateContent((String) bodyPart.getContent());
                System.out.println("ContentType = " + bodyPart.getContentType());
                System.out.println("Content = " + cnt);

                bodyPart.setContent(cnt, bodyPart.getContentType());
            } else if (bodyPart.getContentType().startsWith("text/html")) {
                String cnt = updateContent((String) bodyPart.getContent());
                System.out.println("ContentType = " + bodyPart.getContentType());
                System.out.println("Content = " + cnt);

                bodyPart.setContent(cnt, bodyPart.getContentType());
            }
        }
    } else {
        String cnt = updateContent((String) message.getContent());
        System.out.println("ContentType = " + message.getContentType());
        System.out.println("Content = " + cnt);

        message.setContent(cnt, message.getContentType());
    }

    transport.connect();
    transport.sendMessage(message, message.getRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO));
    transport.close();
}

private String updateContent(String cnt) {
    return cnt.replace("www.xyz.pl", "www.new-xyz.pl");
}

Input stream “data” contains raw message.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance….

Answer 1

You need to call saveChanges() on the MimeMessage (which as far as I know should be sufficient), see also: api-doc MimeMessage#saveChanges():

Updates the appropriate header fields of this message to be consistent with the message’s contents. If this message is contained in a Folder, any changes made to this message are committed to the containing folder.

If any part of a message’s headers or contents are changed, saveChanges must be called to ensure that those changes are permanent. Otherwise, any such modifications may or may not be saved, depending on the folder implementation.