Reading email messages

[Raj Kumar Bindal]

I need to read Email messages which are in outlook using a java program. I am developing this java program but i am getting issues because pop3 server is required to read email messages. I do not have pop3 server configurations of my organisation.

Can anybody suggest me any way to read email messages other than using pop3?

Below is the code that i have developed using pop3:

 public void  fetchMail () throws Exception
  {
	// Create empty properties
	  Properties props = new Properties();

	  // Get session
	  Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);

	  // Get the store
	  Store store = session.getStore("pop3");
	  System.out.println(store.getDefaultFolder().getNewMessageCount());
	  store.connect(Constants.SMTP_HOST_NAME, Constants.SMTP_AUTH_USER, Constants.SMTP_AUTH_PWD);

	  // Get folder
	  Folder folder = store.getFolder("INBOX");
	  folder.open(Folder.READ_ONLY);

	  // Get directory
	  Message message[] = folder.getMessages();

	  for (int i=0, n=message.length; i<1; i++) {
	     System.out.println(i + ": " + message[i].getFrom()[0] 
	       + "\t" + message[i].getSubject());
	  }

	  // Close connection 
	  folder.close(false);
	  store.close();
	
  }

[Raj Kumar Bindal]

Does any body has any comments on the above post?

[Rob Spoor]

Can you use IMAP as protocol instead of POP3? The ideal solution would be to use MAPI, but that's Microsoft's proprietary closed protocol, and has (as far as I know) only been implemented in commercial libraries.

[Raj Kumar Bindal]

I do not have IMAP configurations as well. Is there any other way to read email messages?

[Rob Spoor]

I suggest you talk to your system administrator, because without both POP3 and IMAP it's very difficult to get access to an Exchange mailbox for free.