Get To/CC/BCC addresses from a MimeMessage?

Question

I need to get the To/CC/BCC addresses from a JavaMail MimeMessage object. It seems that the only way I can do this is through getRecepients, but then I can't tell who's in the To field vs the CC and BCC fields. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

getRecipients

public Address[] getRecipients(Message.RecipientType type) throws MessagingException

Returns the recepients specified by the type. The mapping between the type and the corresponding RFC 822 header is as follows:

                Message.RecipientType.TO                "To"
                Message.RecipientType.CC                "Cc"
                Message.RecipientType.BCC               "Bcc"
                MimeMessage.RecipientType.NEWSGROUPS    "Newsgroups"

Answer 2

Note that you'll never find Bcc recipients on a message you receive, that's the whole point of "Bcc".