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javax.mail.internet package




Classes specific to Internet mail systems.
This package supports features that are specific to Internet mail systems
based on the MIME standard
(RFC 2045,
RFC 2046, and
RFC 2047).
The IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 protocols use
{@link javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage MimeMessages}.

Properties

The Jakarta Mail API supports the following standard properties,
which may be set in the Session object, or in the
Properties object used to create the Session object.
The properties are always set as strings; the Type column describes
how the string is interpreted.  For example, use

	session.setProperty("mail.mime.address.strict", "false");


to set the mail.mime.address.strict property,
which is of type boolean.


Jakarta Mail properties

Name
Type
Description



mail.mime.address.strict
boolean

The mail.mime.address.strict session property controls
the parsing of address headers.  By default, strict parsing of address
headers is done.  If this property is set to "false",
strict parsing is not done and many illegal addresses that sometimes
occur in real messages are allowed.  See the InternetAddress
class for details.




mail.mime.allowutf8
boolean

If set to "true", UTF-8 strings are allowed in message headers,
e.g., in addresses.  This should only be set if the mail server also
supports UTF-8.




The Jakarta Mail API specification requires support for the following properties,
which must be set in the System properties.
The properties are always set as strings; the Type column describes
how the string is interpreted.  For example, use

	System.setProperty("mail.mime.decodetext.strict", "false");


to set the mail.mime.decodetext.strict property,
which is of type boolean.


Jakarta Mail System properties

Name
Type
Description



mail.mime.charset
String

The mail.mime.charset System property can
be used to specify the default MIME charset to use for encoded words
and text parts that don't otherwise specify a charset.  Normally, the
default MIME charset is derived from the default Java charset, as
specified in the file.encoding System property.  Most
applications will have no need to explicitly set the default MIME
charset.  In cases where the default MIME charset to be used for
mail messages is different than the charset used for files stored on
the system, this property should be set.




mail.mime.decodetext.strict
boolean

The mail.mime.decodetext.strict property controls
decoding of MIME encoded words.  The MIME spec requires that encoded
words start at the beginning of a whitespace separated word.  Some
mailers incorrectly include encoded words in the middle of a word.
If the mail.mime.decodetext.strict System property is
set to "false", an attempt will be made to decode these
illegal encoded words. The default is true.




mail.mime.encodeeol.strict
boolean

The mail.mime.encodeeol.strict property controls the
choice of Content-Transfer-Encoding for MIME parts that are not of
type "text".  Often such parts will contain textual data for which
an encoding that allows normal end of line conventions is appropriate.
In rare cases, such a part will appear to contain entirely textual
data, but will require an encoding that preserves CR and LF characters
without change.  If the mail.mime.encodeeol.strict
System property is set to "true", such an encoding will
be used when necessary.  The default is false.




mail.mime.decodefilename
boolean

If set to "true", the getFileName method
uses the MimeUtility
method decodeText to decode any
non-ASCII characters in the filename.  Note that this decoding
violates the MIME specification, but is useful for interoperating
with some mail clients that use this convention.
The default is false.




mail.mime.encodefilename
boolean

If set to "true", the setFileName method
uses the MimeUtility
method encodeText to encode any
non-ASCII characters in the filename.  Note that this encoding
violates the MIME specification, but is useful for interoperating
with some mail clients that use this convention.
The default is false.




mail.mime.decodeparameters
boolean

If set to "false", non-ASCII parameters in a
ParameterList, e.g., in a Content-Type header,
will not be decoded as specified by
RFC 2231.
The default is true.




mail.mime.encodeparameters
boolean

If set to "false", non-ASCII parameters in a
ParameterList, e.g., in a Content-Type header,
will not be encoded as specified by
RFC 2231.
The default is true.




mail.mime.multipart. ignoremissingendboundary
boolean

Normally, when parsing a multipart MIME message, a message that is
missing the final end boundary line is not considered an error.
The data simply ends at the end of the input.  Note that messages
of this form violate the MIME specification.  If the property
mail.mime.multipart.ignoremissingendboundary is set
to false, such messages are considered an error and a
MesagingException will be thrown when parsing such a
message.




mail.mime.multipart. ignoremissingboundaryparameter
boolean

If the Content-Type header for a multipart content does not have
a boundary parameter, the multipart parsing code
will look for the first line in the content that looks like a
boundary line and extract the boundary parameter from the line.
If this property is set to "false", a
MessagingException will be thrown if the Content-Type
header doesn't specify a boundary parameter.
The default is true.




mail.mime.multipart. ignoreexistingboundaryparameter
boolean

Normally the boundary parameter in the Content-Type header of a multipart
body part is used to specify the separator between parts of the multipart
body.  This System property may be set to "true" to cause
the parser to look for a line in the multipart body that looks like a
boundary line and use that value as the separator between subsequent parts.
This may be useful in cases where a broken anti-virus product has rewritten
the message incorrectly such that the boundary parameter and the actual
boundary value no longer match.
The default value of this property is false.




mail.mime.multipart. allowempty
boolean

Normally, when writing out a MimeMultipart that contains no body
parts, or when trying to parse a multipart message with no body parts,
a MessagingException is thrown.  The MIME spec does not allow
multipart content with no body parts.  This
System property may be set to "true" to override this behavior.
When writing out such a MimeMultipart, a single empty part will be
included.  When reading such a multipart, a MimeMultipart will be created
with no body parts.
The default value of this property is false.







The following properties are supported by the EE4J implementation of
Jakarta Mail, but are not currently a required part of the specification.
These must be set as Session properties.
The names, types, defaults, and semantics of these properties may
change in future releases.


Jakarta Mail implementation properties

Name
Type
Description



mail.alternates
String

A string containing other email addresses that the current user is known by.
The MimeMessage reply method will eliminate any
of these addresses from the recipient list in the message it constructs,
to avoid sending the reply back to the sender.




mail.replyallcc
boolean

If set to "true", the MimeMessage
reply method will put all recipients except the original
sender in the Cc list of the newly constructed message.
Normally, recipients in the To header of the original
message will also appear in the To list of the newly
constructed message.





The following properties are supported by the EE4J implementation of
Jakarta Mail, but are not currently a required part of the specification.
These must be set as System properties.
The names, types, defaults, and semantics of these properties may
change in future releases.


Jakarta Mail implementation System properties

Name
Type
Description



mail.mime.base64.ignoreerrors
boolean

If set to "true", the BASE64 decoder will ignore errors
in the encoded data, returning EOF.  This may be useful when dealing
with improperly encoded messages that contain extraneous data at the
end of the encoded stream.  Note however that errors anywhere in the
stream will cause the decoder to stop decoding so this should be used
with extreme caution.  The default is false.




mail.mime.foldtext
boolean

If set to "true", header fields containing just text
such as the Subject and Content-Description
header fields, and long parameter values in structured headers such
as Content-Type will be folded (broken into 76 character lines)
when set and unfolded when read.  The default is true.




mail.mime.setcontenttypefilename
boolean

If set to "true", the setFileName method
will also set the name parameter on the Content-Type
header to the specified filename.  This supports interoperability with
some old mail clients.  The default is true.




mail.mime.setdefaulttextcharset
boolean

When updating the headers of a message, a body
part with a text content type but no charset
parameter will have a charset parameter added to it
if this property is set to "true".
The default is true.




mail.mime.parameters.strict
boolean

If set to false, when reading a message, parameter values in header fields
such as Content-Type and Content-Disposition
are allowed to contain whitespace and other special characters without
being quoted; the parameter value ends at the next semicolon.
If set to true (the default), parameter values are required to conform
to the MIME specification and must be quoted if they contain whitespace
or special characters.




mail.mime.applefilenames
boolean

Apple Mail incorrectly encodes filenames that contain spaces,
forgetting to quote the parameter value.  If this property is
set to "true", Jakarta Mail will try to detect this
situation when parsing parameters and work around it.
The default is false.
Note that this property handles a subset of the cases handled
by setting the mail.mime.parameters.strict property to false.
This property will likely be removed in a future release.




mail.mime.windowsfilenames
boolean

Internet Explorer 6 incorrectly includes a complete pathname
in the filename parameter of the Content-Disposition header
for uploaded files, and fails to properly escape the backslashes
in the pathname.  If this property is
set to "true", Jakarta Mail will preserve all backslashes
in the "filename" and "name" parameters of any MIME header.
The default is false.
Note that this is a violation of the MIME specification but may
be useful when using Jakarta Mail to parse HTTP messages for uploaded
files sent by IE6.




mail.mime. ignoreunknownencoding
boolean

If set to "true", an unknown value in the
Content-Transfer-Encoding header will be ignored
when reading a message and an encoding of "8bit" will be assumed.
If set to "false", an exception is thrown for an
unknown encoding value.  The default is false.




mail.mime.uudecode. ignoreerrors
boolean

If set to "true", errors in the encoded format of a
uuencoded document will be ignored when reading a message part.
If set to "false", an exception is thrown for an
incorrectly encoded message part.  The default is false.




mail.mime.uudecode. ignoremissingbeginend
boolean

If set to "true", a missing "being" or "end" line in a
uuencoded document will be ignored when reading a message part.
If set to "false", an exception is thrown for a
uuencoded message part without the required "begin" and "end" lines.
The default is false.




mail.mime. ignorewhitespacelines
boolean

Normally the header of a MIME part is separated from the body by an empty
line.  This System property may be set to "true" to cause
the parser to consider a line containing only whitespace to be an empty
line.  The default value of this property is false.




mail.mime. ignoremultipartencoding
boolean

The MIME spec does not allow body parts of type multipart/* to be encoded.
The Content-Transfer-Encoding header is ignored in this case.
Setting this System property to "false" will
cause the Content-Transfer-Encoding header to be honored for multipart
content.
The default value of this property is true.




mail.mime.allowencodedmessages
boolean

The MIME spec does not allow body parts of type message/* to be encoded.
The Content-Transfer-Encoding header is ignored in this case.
Some versions of Microsoft Outlook will incorrectly encode message
attachments.  Setting this System property to "true" will
cause the Content-Transfer-Encoding header to be honored for message
attachments.
The default value of this property is false.




mail.mime.contenttypehandler
String

In some cases Jakarta Mail is unable to process messages with an invalid
Content-Type header.  The header may have incorrect syntax or other
problems.  This property specifies the name of a class that will be
used to clean up the Content-Type header value before Jakarta Mail uses it.
The class must have a method with this signature:
public static String cleanContentType(MimePart mp, String contentType)
Whenever Jakarta Mail accesses the Content-Type header of a message, it
will pass the value to this method and use the returned value instead.
The value may be null if the Content-Type header isn't present.
Returning null will cause the default Content-Type to be used.
The MimePart may be used to access other headers of the message part
to determine how to correct the Content-Type.
Note that the Content-Type handler doesn't affect the
getHeader method, which still returns the raw header value.
Note also that the handler doesn't affect the IMAP provider; the IMAP
server is responsible for returning pre-parsed, syntactically correct
Content-Type information.




mail.mime.address.usecanonicalhostname
boolean

Use the
{@link java.net.InetAddress#getCanonicalHostName InetAddress.getCanonicalHostName}
method to determine the host name in the
{@link javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress#getLocalAddress InternetAddress.getLocalAddress}
method.
With some network configurations, InetAddress.getCanonicalHostName may be
slow or may return an address instead of a host name.
In that case, setting this System property to false will cause the
{@link java.net.InetAddress#getHostName InetAddress.getHostName}
method to be used instead.
The default is true.





The current
implementation of classes in this package log debugging information using
{@link java.util.logging.Logger} as described in the following table:


Jakarta Mail Loggers

Logger Name
Logging Level
Purpose



javax.mail.internet
FINE
General debugging output

Name	Type	Description
mail.mime.address.strict	boolean	The `mail.mime.address.strict` session property controls the parsing of address headers. By default, strict parsing of address headers is done. If this property is set to `"false"`, strict parsing is not done and many illegal addresses that sometimes occur in real messages are allowed. See the `InternetAddress` class for details.
mail.mime.allowutf8	boolean	If set to `"true"`, UTF-8 strings are allowed in message headers, e.g., in addresses. This should only be set if the mail server also supports UTF-8.

Name	Type	Description
mail.mime.charset	String	The `mail.mime.charset` System property can be used to specify the default MIME charset to use for encoded words and text parts that don't otherwise specify a charset. Normally, the default MIME charset is derived from the default Java charset, as specified in the `file.encoding` System property. Most applications will have no need to explicitly set the default MIME charset. In cases where the default MIME charset to be used for mail messages is different than the charset used for files stored on the system, this property should be set.
mail.mime.decodetext.strict	boolean	The `mail.mime.decodetext.strict` property controls decoding of MIME encoded words. The MIME spec requires that encoded words start at the beginning of a whitespace separated word. Some mailers incorrectly include encoded words in the middle of a word. If the `mail.mime.decodetext.strict` System property is set to `"false"`, an attempt will be made to decode these illegal encoded words. The default is true.
mail.mime.encodeeol.strict	boolean	The `mail.mime.encodeeol.strict` property controls the choice of Content-Transfer-Encoding for MIME parts that are not of type "text". Often such parts will contain textual data for which an encoding that allows normal end of line conventions is appropriate. In rare cases, such a part will appear to contain entirely textual data, but will require an encoding that preserves CR and LF characters without change. If the `mail.mime.encodeeol.strict` System property is set to `"true"`, such an encoding will be used when necessary. The default is false.
mail.mime.decodefilename	boolean	If set to `"true"`, the `getFileName` method uses the `MimeUtility` method `decodeText` to decode any non-ASCII characters in the filename. Note that this decoding violates the MIME specification, but is useful for interoperating with some mail clients that use this convention. The default is false.
mail.mime.encodefilename	boolean	If set to `"true"`, the `setFileName` method uses the `MimeUtility` method `encodeText` to encode any non-ASCII characters in the filename. Note that this encoding violates the MIME specification, but is useful for interoperating with some mail clients that use this convention. The default is false.
mail.mime.decodeparameters	boolean	If set to `"false"`, non-ASCII parameters in a `ParameterList`, e.g., in a Content-Type header, will not be decoded as specified by RFC 2231. The default is true.
mail.mime.encodeparameters	boolean	If set to `"false"`, non-ASCII parameters in a `ParameterList`, e.g., in a Content-Type header, will not be encoded as specified by RFC 2231. The default is true.
mail.mime.multipart. ignoremissingendboundary	boolean	Normally, when parsing a multipart MIME message, a message that is missing the final end boundary line is not considered an error. The data simply ends at the end of the input. Note that messages of this form violate the MIME specification. If the property `mail.mime.multipart.ignoremissingendboundary` is set to `false`, such messages are considered an error and a `MesagingException` will be thrown when parsing such a message.
mail.mime.multipart. ignoremissingboundaryparameter	boolean	If the Content-Type header for a multipart content does not have a `boundary` parameter, the multipart parsing code will look for the first line in the content that looks like a boundary line and extract the boundary parameter from the line. If this property is set to `"false"`, a `MessagingException` will be thrown if the Content-Type header doesn't specify a boundary parameter. The default is true.
mail.mime.multipart. ignoreexistingboundaryparameter	boolean	Normally the boundary parameter in the Content-Type header of a multipart body part is used to specify the separator between parts of the multipart body. This System property may be set to `"true"` to cause the parser to look for a line in the multipart body that looks like a boundary line and use that value as the separator between subsequent parts. This may be useful in cases where a broken anti-virus product has rewritten the message incorrectly such that the boundary parameter and the actual boundary value no longer match. The default value of this property is false.
mail.mime.multipart. allowempty	boolean	Normally, when writing out a MimeMultipart that contains no body parts, or when trying to parse a multipart message with no body parts, a `MessagingException` is thrown. The MIME spec does not allow multipart content with no body parts. This System property may be set to `"true"` to override this behavior. When writing out such a MimeMultipart, a single empty part will be included. When reading such a multipart, a MimeMultipart will be created with no body parts. The default value of this property is false.

Name	Type	Description
mail.alternates	String	A string containing other email addresses that the current user is known by. The `MimeMessage` `reply` method will eliminate any of these addresses from the recipient list in the message it constructs, to avoid sending the reply back to the sender.
mail.replyallcc	boolean	If set to `"true"`, the `MimeMessage` `reply` method will put all recipients except the original sender in the `Cc` list of the newly constructed message. Normally, recipients in the `To` header of the original message will also appear in the `To` list of the newly constructed message.

Name	Type	Description
mail.mime.base64.ignoreerrors	boolean	If set to `"true"`, the BASE64 decoder will ignore errors in the encoded data, returning EOF. This may be useful when dealing with improperly encoded messages that contain extraneous data at the end of the encoded stream. Note however that errors anywhere in the stream will cause the decoder to stop decoding so this should be used with extreme caution. The default is false.
mail.mime.foldtext	boolean	If set to `"true"`, header fields containing just text such as the `Subject` and `Content-Description` header fields, and long parameter values in structured headers such as `Content-Type` will be folded (broken into 76 character lines) when set and unfolded when read. The default is true.
mail.mime.setcontenttypefilename	boolean	If set to `"true"`, the `setFileName` method will also set the `name` parameter on the `Content-Type` header to the specified filename. This supports interoperability with some old mail clients. The default is true.
mail.mime.setdefaulttextcharset	boolean	When updating the headers of a message, a body part with a `text` content type but no `charset` parameter will have a `charset` parameter added to it if this property is set to `"true"`. The default is true.
mail.mime.parameters.strict	boolean	If set to false, when reading a message, parameter values in header fields such as `Content-Type` and `Content-Disposition` are allowed to contain whitespace and other special characters without being quoted; the parameter value ends at the next semicolon. If set to true (the default), parameter values are required to conform to the MIME specification and must be quoted if they contain whitespace or special characters.
mail.mime.applefilenames	boolean	Apple Mail incorrectly encodes filenames that contain spaces, forgetting to quote the parameter value. If this property is set to `"true"`, Jakarta Mail will try to detect this situation when parsing parameters and work around it. The default is false. Note that this property handles a subset of the cases handled by setting the mail.mime.parameters.strict property to false. This property will likely be removed in a future release.
mail.mime.windowsfilenames	boolean	Internet Explorer 6 incorrectly includes a complete pathname in the filename parameter of the Content-Disposition header for uploaded files, and fails to properly escape the backslashes in the pathname. If this property is set to `"true"`, Jakarta Mail will preserve all backslashes in the "filename" and "name" parameters of any MIME header. The default is false. Note that this is a violation of the MIME specification but may be useful when using Jakarta Mail to parse HTTP messages for uploaded files sent by IE6.
mail.mime. ignoreunknownencoding	boolean	If set to `"true"`, an unknown value in the `Content-Transfer-Encoding` header will be ignored when reading a message and an encoding of "8bit" will be assumed. If set to `"false"`, an exception is thrown for an unknown encoding value. The default is false.
mail.mime.uudecode. ignoreerrors	boolean	If set to `"true"`, errors in the encoded format of a uuencoded document will be ignored when reading a message part. If set to `"false"`, an exception is thrown for an incorrectly encoded message part. The default is false.
mail.mime.uudecode. ignoremissingbeginend	boolean	If set to `"true"`, a missing "being" or "end" line in a uuencoded document will be ignored when reading a message part. If set to `"false"`, an exception is thrown for a uuencoded message part without the required "begin" and "end" lines. The default is false.
mail.mime. ignorewhitespacelines	boolean	Normally the header of a MIME part is separated from the body by an empty line. This System property may be set to `"true"` to cause the parser to consider a line containing only whitespace to be an empty line. The default value of this property is false.
mail.mime. ignoremultipartencoding	boolean	The MIME spec does not allow body parts of type multipart/* to be encoded. The Content-Transfer-Encoding header is ignored in this case. Setting this System property to `"false"` will cause the Content-Transfer-Encoding header to be honored for multipart content. The default value of this property is true.
mail.mime.allowencodedmessages	boolean	The MIME spec does not allow body parts of type message/* to be encoded. The Content-Transfer-Encoding header is ignored in this case. Some versions of Microsoft Outlook will incorrectly encode message attachments. Setting this System property to `"true"` will cause the Content-Transfer-Encoding header to be honored for message attachments. The default value of this property is false.
mail.mime.contenttypehandler	String	In some cases Jakarta Mail is unable to process messages with an invalid Content-Type header. The header may have incorrect syntax or other problems. This property specifies the name of a class that will be used to clean up the Content-Type header value before Jakarta Mail uses it. The class must have a method with this signature: `public static String cleanContentType(MimePart mp, String contentType)` Whenever Jakarta Mail accesses the Content-Type header of a message, it will pass the value to this method and use the returned value instead. The value may be null if the Content-Type header isn't present. Returning null will cause the default Content-Type to be used. The MimePart may be used to access other headers of the message part to determine how to correct the Content-Type. Note that the Content-Type handler doesn't affect the `getHeader` method, which still returns the raw header value. Note also that the handler doesn't affect the IMAP provider; the IMAP server is responsible for returning pre-parsed, syntactically correct Content-Type information.
mail.mime.address.usecanonicalhostname	boolean	Use the {@link java.net.InetAddress#getCanonicalHostName InetAddress.getCanonicalHostName} method to determine the host name in the {@link javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress#getLocalAddress InternetAddress.getLocalAddress} method. With some network configurations, InetAddress.getCanonicalHostName may be slow or may return an address instead of a host name. In that case, setting this System property to false will cause the {@link java.net.InetAddress#getHostName InetAddress.getHostName} method to be used instead. The default is true.