sending mail with attachment

Previous is through socket programming whereas this is web mailing to send attachments

http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/618471

Best Regards
Sudhakar

> I also want to have the ability so save the message (and its attached files) as a one byte array.

Do you have access to the mail server code?

No, but you can assume that I create the message and know the file names and path.
I assume I can use serialization, but I don't want to...

> I also want to have the ability so save the message (and its attached files) as a one byte array.

I might have misunderstood your question, you obviously mean to save the message just before it leaves *your* mail server, don't you? Or do you mean to save the message on the receiving end mail server?

I have the MimeMessage object, for example, and I'm adding to it the MimeMultipart.
Now I want to save it to the DB as a byte array (BLOB) for persistency.

Ah I see, I thought you wanted to save it onto the hard disk. Are you using a prepared statement?

the bottom line is that I need it as a byte array, the DB issue is not relevant.

Yes you do, you need a ByteArrayInputSTream, I just asked for a ps in order to post some sample code. I am assuming you indeed have a ps, then you can do:

ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
out = new ObjectOutputStream(<your multipart object here>) ;
out.writeObject(object);
out.close();
byte [] bytes = bos.toByteArray();

ps = con.prepareStatement("insert into mytable values ?");
ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
ps.setBinaryStream(1, bais, bytes.length)

Thank you for accepting :)

BTW I have some mistakes in my code, it should be:

ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream() ;
out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos) ;
out.writeObject(<your multipart object here>);
out.close();

You're welcome, I understood the idea... ;-)