Look at the code for fetchpop or fetchmail to see how these do it.

-- Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 16 June 2003 20:43
> To: james-user
> Subject: Reading and writing X-header fields
> 
> 
> I am writing an application in which I need to track messages 
> (long-story-short). I have noted applications - such as spam 
> applications - that create "Extended" headers such 
> "X-Spam-Status: Yes". I would like to create a mailet which 
> reads and writes these headers. 
> 
> I have done some reading on creating mailets as well as the 
> javamail API, but no practical experience....yet: 
> In my mailet, would I use 
> Mail.getMessage().getHeader(myHeaderName)[0]? 
> Can I do a Mail.getMessage().removeHeader(myHeaderName) and 
> then Mail.getMessage.setHeader(myHeaderName) to accomplish an update? 
> Or is the javamail route a red-herring?
> 
> I remember a post not long ago when someone asked about these 
> headers. I cannot find the posting at mail-archive.com nor my 
> local inbox archive, so I apologize for this is repeated 
> question; Does the Mailet API provide a means to read and 
> write these extended headers?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Steve B.
> 

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