java imap fetch messages since a date

Question

I am writing/learning to fetch email using java from an IMAP folder using javax.mail package. I was successfully able to retrieve the last n messages in a Folder, however I

Answer 1

Here is what I came up with. This works for me, but probably not the best way to go about it. Any suggestions to improve this?

      Date from; //assume initialized
      Store store; //assume initialized
      Folder inbox = store.getFolder("INBOX");
      inbox.open(Folder.READ_ONLY);
      int end = inbox.getMessageCount();
      long lFrom = from.getTime();
      Date rDate;
      long lrDate;
      int start = end;
      do {
        start = start - 10;
        Message testMsg = inbox.getMessage(start);
        rDate = testMsg.getReceivedDate();
        lrDate = rDate.getTime();
      } while (lrDate > lFrom);
      Message msg[] = inbox.getMessages(start, end);
      for (int i=0, n=msg.length; i lFrom) {
          System.out.println(i + ": "
            + msg[i].getFrom()[0]
            + "\t" + msg[i].getSubject());
        }
      }