JavaMail reading recent unread mails using IMAP

Question

I have a requirement to retrieve unread mails from Gmail. I am using Java Mail API. By default, this API retrieves mails from the oldest to newest. But I need to retrieve re

Answer 1

I think this might help to access read/unread/recent mails change your variables according to your needs.

// search for all "unseen" messages

Flags seen = new Flags(Flags.Flag.SEEN);// try changing this SEEN to RECENT 

// set it true or false for seen & unseen mail

FlagTerm unseenFlagTerm = new FlagTerm(seen, false)
Message messages[] = inbox.search(unseenFlagTerm);