Re: Move single email message from inbox to another folder

From:
Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:25:39 GMT
Message-ID:
<7ykGi.16939$d01.1245@trnddc08>
Edwinah63 wrote:

Hi everyone,

I would like some code to move a SINGLE email message from the inbox
to another one.

I have code to move a group of them:

folder.copyMessage(messages, SomeOtherFolder);


copyMessage implies that the function copies *a* message, not *many*
messages.

but what I would like to do is:

folder.copyMessage(messages[i], SomeOtherFolder);


One message can be trivially converted into an array:
Message uniMessage[] = new Messages[] {messages[i]};

Message messages[] = inboxFolder.getMessages();
for (int i=0, n=messages.length; i<n; i++)
{
   //do some code to process subject line, body, sender etc
  //save message body and any attachments to database
  //then move it to the correct folder

  if (SaveFlag)
       //move this message to the SaveSuccessful folder
  else
      //move it to SaveFailed folder

}


A better tactic would be to keep two lists:
LinkedList<Message> successful = new LinkedList<Message>();
LinkedList<Message> failed = new LinkedList<Message>();
for (Message m : messages) {
     if (saveFlag)
        successful.add(m);
     else
        failed.add(m);
}
folder.copyMessages(successful.toArray(new Message[0]));
folder.copyMessages(failed.toArray(new Message[0]));

(BTW searching google for this info yesterday returned an error that I
was trying to hack the system!)


ERROR: Does not compute.

--
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