Yes. The legacy system handles encoding. That is provided as another
parameter.

It is an existing, working integration. I am just porting the old system in
my end. And I'd rather use mime4j than porting the kitchen sink mail parser
đŸ€ą

It looks like getting the byte offset for the attachment body is the only
missing feature.



fre. d. 2. okt. 2020 03.54 skrev Tellier Benoit <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> First, be aware that by just getting the offset, the attachment will
> still be encoded. Is it something your legacy system can tolerate?
>
>
> Le 01/10/2020 à 20:42, Lasse LindgÄrd a écrit :
> > Hi mime4j experts,
> >
> > I got a requirement to deliver emails to a legacy system that needs to
> read
> > the attachments.
> >
> > For each part in a multipart email I need to provide the byte offset for
> > where the attachment starts in the email, so the legacy system doesn't
> need
> > to know how to parse emails.
> >
> > Performance and memory usage is an issue, so the solution can't load the
> > entire email into memory, so I use the MimeTokenStream
> >
> > My intuition tells me that if mime4j can return an InputStream for the
> > current attachment body. Getting the byte offset should be easy. But byte
> > offsets are not tracked. The library seems to be aware of line numbers
> > internally, but they are not exposed and I suspect they are "off" because
> > the streams are buffered.
> I miss knowledge to answer here.
> >
> > Now I am thinking that maybe I am going about this the wrong way. So I
> > would very much appreciate any ideas of how to solve this in a simple
> > matter.
> >
> > NB: I also posted a more open version of this question on SO:
> >
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64155766/find-byte-offsets-for-e-mail-attachments
> >
>

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