[TIKA-295] Rough cut of mbox parser

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4
• Fix Version/s: 0.5
• Assignee: Jukka Zitting
• Reporter: Kenneth William Krugler
• Created: 28/Sep/09 22:16
• Updated: 14/Dec/09 22:16
• Resolved: 02/Oct/09 11:26

Description

Attached is a patch for a first-cut at a parser that handles mailbox (.mbox, application/mbox) files.

• The first email headers are used to fill in metadata. Subsequent email headers are tossed.
• Charset handling needs to be fixed up. It's unclear (not spec'd) whether emails individually use the charset as specified in their individual header, or the entire file should be re-encoded (and the encoding is sent in the response header, or auto-detected).
• Multi-part emails won't be handled properly, though it's unclear what should be done in that case (if anything).