Question

1. The following code throws IndexOutOfBoundsException. Any idea why?

    Folder folder = store.getDefaultFolder();
    folder = folder.getFolder("INBOX");
   
    int totalMessages = folder.getMessageCount();
    //totalMessages is 17000
   
     folder.getMessages(16900, 16999)   --- here I am trying to get the NEWEST 99                                                                                         messages.
   

This code throws the exception indexoutofbounds even though there are so many mails. What am I doing wrong?

1. folder.getMessages() – get all the emails from 1st email to last. In my case 17000!! How do I get the emails starting from newest to oldest?
   I only want to see the latest emails – around 100 of them. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Never us magic values in code, it will just cause you pain. Try:

int messagesToDisplay = 100;
folder.getMessages(totalMessages  - messagesToDisplay , totalMessages);

From the JavaDoc the messages are identified with a 1 based array not 0.

Can you also add the stack trace please.