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Java Enterprise Best Practices

by O'Reilly Java Authors
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
9h 46m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Use Multipart/Related for Rich Messages

To ensure that they can be read as easily as possible, richly formatted messages should be completely self-contained, instead of relying on images or resources available on a server. The MIME standard provides another special multipart type: “related”. Related parts can refer to each other via URIs pointing to the Content-ID, or “CID,” associated with each part. A CID URI takes the form “cid:contentid”. You can use the setHeader( ) method of MimeBodyPart to create known content IDs for each message part. Once this is done, HTML parts can, for example, display an image by referring to the message part containing the image data.

The following example contains an HTML part that includes an <img> tag pointing to the "cid:myimage" URI. It also contains a second part containing a GIF image with a content ID of "myimage".

 . . . Message msg = new MimeMessage(session); msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress("images@company.com")); msg.setRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress("bob.cratchett@company.com")); msg.setSubject("Image Email"); Multipart multipartRelated = new MimeMultipart("related"); MimeBodyPart mbp = new MimeBodyPart( ); mbp.setContent( "<html><body><img src=\"cid:myimage\"></body></html>", "text/html"); multipartRelated.addBodyPart(mbp); . . . MimeBodyPart mbp2 = new MimeBodyPart( ); mbp2.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(new FileDataSource("c:\\inline.gif"))); mbp2.setFileName("inline.gif"); mbp2.setHeader("Content-ID","myimage"); ...
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