[EMAIL-74] Create an overridable method in Email.java to create the MimeMessage instance

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.2

Environment

All Java

• Assignee: Siegfried Goeschl
• Reporter: Jim McCabe
• Created: 14/Mar/08 21:55
• Updated: 23/Oct/10 22:25
• Resolved: 24/Feb/09 22:32

Description

I would like more control over the MimeMessage instance that is created by Email.java in buildMimeMessage().

Currently it simply instantiates one directly - new MimeMessage(). It would be nice if it called a protected method called something like createMimeMessage(session) so that I could override that with my own subclass.

Why would I want to subclass it? So I can set the Message-Id on the outgoing message. See this link:

http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/FAQ.html#msgid

I've got my own subclass ready but I have no way to hook into Email.java to use it.