[CAMEL-8569] Ability to easily extract email attachments

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.15.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.16.0
• Component/s: camel-mail
• Labels: features
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Estimated Complexity: Moderate
• Assignee: Claus Ibsen
• Reporter: Simon van der Sluis
• Created: 29/Mar/15 22:37
• Updated: 13/Apr/15 20:25
• Resolved: 13/Apr/15 06:32

Description

The existing support for splitting an email by it's attachments (org.apache.camel.component.mail.SplitAttachmentsExpression) is limiting that the attachments are still mime encoded, and cannot be easily used by the next stage in a route.
e.g.
from("pop3://[e-mail]?...
.split(new SplitAttachmentsExpression())
.to("file:///myAttachmentsFolder")

doesn't work

An improved splitter that decodes the mime parts into byte arrays would be more useful