What is Apache James mime4j?

What is Apache James mime4j?

Apache James Mime4J is developed by the Apache James team but now has a dedicated mailing list . Apache James Mime4J provides a parser, MimeStreamParser , for e-mail message streams in plain rfc822 and MIME format. The parser uses a callback mechanism to report parsing events such as the start of an entity header, the start of a body, etc.

What is mimestream parser in Apache?

Apache James Mime4J provides a parser, MimeStreamParser , for e-mail message streams in plain rfc822 and MIME format. The parser uses a callback mechanism to report parsing events such as the start of an entity header, the start of a body, etc.

What is mime4j used for?

mime4j can also be used to build a tree representation of an e-mail message using the Message class. Using this facility mime4j automatically handles the decoding of fields and bodies and uses temporary files for large attachments.

What is the best mime parser for Perl?

As a benchmark the widely used perl MIME::Tools parser has been used. mime4j and MIME:Tools rarely differ (<25 in those 5000). When they do (which only occurs for illegally formatted spam messages) we think mime4j does a better job.