Package javax.mail.search

Message search terms for the JavaMail API.

See: Description

Class Summary

Class	Description
AddressStringTerm	This abstract class implements string comparisons for Message addresses.
AddressTerm	This class implements Message Address comparisons.
AndTerm	This class implements the logical AND operator on individual SearchTerms.
BodyTerm	This class implements searches on a message body.
ComparisonTerm	This class models the comparison operator.
DateTerm	This class implements comparisons for Dates
FlagTerm	This class implements comparisons for Message Flags.
FromStringTerm	This class implements string comparisons for the From Address header.
FromTerm	This class implements comparisons for the From Address header.
HeaderTerm	This class implements comparisons for Message headers.
IntegerComparisonTerm	This class implements comparisons for integers.
MessageIDTerm	This term models the RFC822 "MessageId" - a message-id for Internet messages that is supposed to be unique per message.
MessageNumberTerm	This class implements comparisons for Message numbers.
NotTerm	This class implements the logical NEGATION operator.
OrTerm	This class implements the logical OR operator on individual SearchTerms.
ReceivedDateTerm	This class implements comparisons for the Message Received date
RecipientStringTerm	This class implements string comparisons for the Recipient Address headers.
RecipientTerm	This class implements comparisons for the Recipient Address headers.
SearchTerm	Search criteria are expressed as a tree of search-terms, forming a parse-tree for the search expression.
SentDateTerm	This class implements comparisons for the Message SentDate.
SizeTerm	This class implements comparisons for Message sizes.
StringTerm	This class implements the match method for Strings.
SubjectTerm	This class implements comparisons for the message Subject header.

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
SearchException	The exception thrown when a Search expression could not be handled.

Package javax.mail.search Description

Message search terms for the JavaMail API. This package defines classes that can be used to construct a search expression to search a folder for messages matching the expression; see the search method on javax.mail.Folder. See SearchTerm.

Note that the exact search capabilities depend on the protocol, provider, and server in use. For the POP3 protocol, all searching is done on the client side using the JavaMail classes. For IMAP, all searching is done on the server side and is limited by the search capabilities of the IMAP protocol and the IMAP server being used. For example, IMAP date based searches have only day granularity.

In general, all of the string patterns supported by search terms are just simple strings; no regular expressions are supported.