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. If you
are familiar with the SAX XML parser interface you
should have no problem getting started with
mime4j. The parser only deals with the structure
of the message stream and won't do any decoding of
base64 or quoted-printable encoded header fields
and bodies. This is intentional - the parser
should only provide the most basic functionality
needed to build more complex parsers.
