parsing emails in java

[OCD]

I have to parse an email message by separating the "To", "From", "Subject" and body of the text in order to then use this for a spam filter. I am having a difficult time figuring out how to parse the messages any suggestions???

[sicarie]

I have to parse an email message by separating the "To", "From", "Subject" and body of the text in order to then use this for a spam filter. I am having a difficult time figuring out how to parse the messages any suggestions???

What part are you having trouble with? Reading it in, getting a line, getting the message, parsing for a keyword? With the body, are you using grammatical analysis at all, or keywords, something else?

[JosAH]

I have to parse an email message by separating the "To", "From", "Subject" and body of the text in order to then use this for a spam filter. I am having a difficult time figuring out how to parse the messages any suggestions???

If you really want to dig into how those darn spammers work read RFC 821.

kind regards,

Jos

[OCD]

If you really want to dig into how those darn spammers work read RFC 821.

kind regards,

Jos

I am haviing trouble parsing the body of the message. This is my code. it doesnt give me any errors but when I try to run it and print it to the screen nothing prints HELP!!!!

 
 boolean messageStarted = false;
           if(line.indexOf("Message Body:") != -1)
            {
                Scanner scan = new Scanner (line);
                scan.useDelimiter(Pattern.compile("[<>]"));
                while(scan.hasNextLine())
                {
                   if(messageStarted = true)
                   {
                       inBody += line;
                   }
                   if(line.indexOf("Message Body:") != -1)
                   {
                       messageStarted = true;
                   }
                   if(line.indexOf("<END>") != -1)
                   {
                       messageStarted = false;
                       System.out.println(inBody);
                       inBody = "";
                   }
 
 
                }
 

[prometheuzz]

I am haviing trouble parsing the body of the message. This is my code. it doesnt give me any errors but when I try to run it and print it to the screen nothing prints HELP!!!!

Looks like you're in an infinite loop since you don't get new lines from your scan object, and thus while(scan.hasNextLine()) will keep looping. Try this:

while(scan.hasNextLine())
{
  line = scan.nextLine();
 
  // ...
 
}