Multiple Mail Bodies?

[sappenin]

In JBCS 1.0M5 (and I assume before), each Mail message had only a single mail body. So, for example, the MailboxService.getMailBody(MessageData message) function would return a single MailBody object.

Post 1.0M5 (i.e., the current HEAD), it appears that each Message object can now store multiple Mail Bodies, as each function that returns a mail body now returns a list of mail bodies.

I don't necessarily disagree with the change -- I'm just wondering what prompted it? Is the plan to start storing MIME attachments in separate bodies, or is there some other application/reason?

Thanks!

David

[acoliver]

yes exactly. This is needed primarily because of IMAP, but also in the long term we plan on being able to detect for instance if I forward you Foo.doc and you forward it to mikezzz and we're both on the same server -- then only one copy (assuming they are identical) would be stored.

[sappenin]

Very Cool!