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JavaMail API Reference Implementation was started in August 2008, is owned by shannon, and has 54 members.

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Reading imap mail messages as conversations

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Replies: 4 - Last Post: October 26, 2010 10:29
by: Rajiv

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Rajiv

Posted: October 25, 2010 13:55 by Rajiv

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how do we read the messages with their parent messages for the same subject. for example :

MAIL A sends mail to MAIL B
MAIL B reply to MAIL A
MAIL B again reply to MAIL A

now we have 2 messages in MAIL A inbox and in gmail they show it as one mail with a prefix of how many number of mails from this user.example:
FROM B(2)

how do we read both messages according to child to parent message.
how do we get any relation to these two mails in inbox?

shannon	Posted: October 25, 2010 22:12 by shannon » Permalink
	The algorithm in RFC 5256 should get you started.

Rajiv	Posted: October 26, 2010 01:57 by Rajiv » Permalink
	i had a look at the rfc 5256 document but was unable to understand the scenario.Is their any demo code(message conversations) implemented for this scenario so that i could get a reference from it?

shannon	Posted: October 26, 2010 04:54 by shannon » Permalink
	If you couldn't understand that document, the code probably isn't going to help you. I believe you can find C code implementing this in the UW IMAP server. I don't know of any Java code implementing this, but you might want to look at Apache James.

Rajiv	Posted: October 26, 2010 10:29 by Rajiv » Permalink
	well tried to read from message header (message-id,references) to build up the conversation chain.But gmail doesn't use those properties to keep the conversation in tact as most people don't reply directly to the received mail.so am wondering what does they do(properties they look for) to keep the conversation intact.

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