Create a .eml (email) file in Java

Question

Anybody knows how to do this? I got all the information of the email (body, subject, from , to, cc, bcc) and need to generate an .eml file out of it.

Answer 1

EML files are just plain text files. The headers are separated from the body by a blank line. Headers look like this:

From: "DR CLEMENT OKON" 
To: "You" 
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP 
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:42:47 -0400

For more info, the official spec is RFC 2822. It's actually not as hard to read as some RFCs.

Edit: When I said "plain text" I should have thought for a second. I really meant plain ASCII - and not the 8-bit "extended ASCII" either - just up to character 127. If you want more than seven bits, you need some kind of encoding and things get complicated.