Receiving mails in Java with IMAP or POP3
This example shows you how to receive mails in Java either using the IMAP or the POP3 protocol. The SSL encrypted variants IMAPS and POP3S are also supported. Received mails will be set to read, which means that you will only receive the latest ones. I will also give some hints about how to handle incoming mails concerning application security. Remember that you should always sanitize user inputs. Receiving mails You need to use to the following import statement import javax.mail.*; to be able to connect mail servers. The constructor of the client is straightforward. It is simply used to pass and store some values into fields, which are then used later on. We are interested in the protocol, host, port user and password. Valid values for the protocol are imap, imaps, pop3 and pop3s. ...