Problem: BodyPart setContent( string, "text/html" ) results in "text/plain"?

[Craig Harris]

James 2.2.0, Phoenix 4.0.1

In a mailet that extends GenericMailet, in the service method, I have the 
following: 

    ...
    MimeMessage msg = newMail.getMessage( );
    if ( msg.getContent( ) instanceof Multipart) {
        Multipart mpart = (Multipart) msg.getContent( );
        for (int ix=0, iNumParts=mpart.getCount(); ix < iNumParts; ix++) {
            BodyPart part = mpart.getBodyPart( ix );

            if (part.getContentType( ).startsWith( "text/html" )) {

                String htmlString = generatePartContent( ... );    // a 
function that produces html text
                log( "before setContent: part.getContentType() = " 
+part.getContentType( ) );        // text/html;... here   
                part.setContent( htmlString, part.getContentType() );
                log( "after  setContent: part.getContentType() = " 
+part.getContentType( ) );        // text/plain  here

    ...

before the part.setContent statement, the part's content type is reported as :

    text/html;
 charset="iso-8859-1"

after the setContent call, it is reported as "text/plain"


I seem to have lost both the "html" as well as the charset information.  

Bizarre, no?  Anyone have similar experience???


-- Craig Harris
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