problem in reading mail from imap store using vmime

[omkar phadke]

bellow is sample code
It reads mails from mailstore and write into temporary file and compare with original file.
problem is : header is present in email files in mailstore but when we read mails from imapstore then it does not read headers so mail comparison fails.

Platform is Rhel6
Vmime rpm is libvmime-0.9.2-0.1.20110626svn.el6.x86_64

sample code :

bool testStoreAttachmentMail::validateOriginalMailStoredToAttachmentMaster(string& szWorkingCopy,AttachmentMailAccessBean& oAttachmentMailAccessBean)
{
// create the imap store connection to the attachment master user
// get the first mail to the attachment store user i.e. last mail added to the user
// compare the mail retrieved and the mail given for the test case
bool bValid = false;
try
{
// connect to the store
vmime::ref <vmime::net::session> sess = vmime::create <vmime::net::session>();

    string szStoreUrl = "imap://";
    szStoreUrl.append(oAttachmentMailAccessBean.getAttachmentMasterUser());
    szStoreUrl.append(":");
    szStoreUrl.append(oAttachmentMailAccessBean.getAttachmentMasterPassword());
    szStoreUrl.append("@");
    szStoreUrl.append(oAttachmentMailAccessBean.getAttachmentMasterMailStoreIP());

    vmime::utility::url storeURL(szStoreUrl);
    vmime::ref <vmime::net::store> store = sess->getStore(storeURL);
    store->connect();

    // Open the INBOX of the attachment master user
    vmime::ref <vmime::net::folder> folder = store->getDefaultFolder();
    folder->open (vmime::net::folder::MODE_READ_WRITE);

    int iMessageCount = folder->getMessageCount();

    // get the latest mail stored in the attachment master's mailstore
    vmime::ref <vmime::net::message> msg = folder->getMessage(iMessageCount);

    ofstream myout;

    string szFilename = szWorkingCopy + "_retrieved_mail";

    try
    {
        myout.open(szFilename.c_str(),  ios::out );

        if( myout.is_open() )
        {
            if(m_oLogger->isDebugEnabled())
            {
                DEBUG(m_oLogger, "[StoreAttachmentMail(store)] opened File name: " + szFilename );
            }
        }
        else
        {
            ERROR(m_oLogger, "[StoreAttachmentMail(store)] could not open File name: " + szFilename );
        }
    }
    catch ( std::exception &e )
    {
        ERROR(m_oLogger,"[StoreAttachmentMail(store)] Exception while storing the attachment file : " + (string)e.what() );
    }

    // Here, extract() will actually download message data from the server
    vmime::utility::outputStreamAdapter out(myout);
    msg->extract(out);

    myout.flush();
    myout.close();

    // compare both the files to validate that same mail has been copied
    bValid = cmpFiles(szWorkingCopy,szFilename);

    if ( (remove(szFilename.c_str())) == -1 )
    {
        WARN(m_oLogger,"[testStoreAttachmentMail] - <Error while deleting message file, it may not be present " + szFilename ) ;
    }
}
catch ( string error )
{
    ERROR(m_oLogger,"[StoreAttachmentMail(store)] Exception while storing the attachment file : " + (string)error );
}
return bValid ;

}

[Vincent Richard]

Hi!

As far as I remember, it may be a bug in extract() function. I can only advise you to use a newer version of VMime.

Unfortunately, there is not recently released package, but you can get the latest sources from the GitHub repository: https://github.com/kisli/vmime

Vincent

[omkar phadke]

ok, thanks for help Richard.