Accessing emails from gmail using IMAP ( javamail API)

Question

I am trying to access emails from Gmail accounts through IMAP with the help of the JavaMail API. I was wondering why the code works for one email account but doesn't work for another.

I am able to access the Inbox folder of both email accounts. But for one of the email accounts, other folders like SPAM([Gmail]/Spam) are not able to be accessed and it throws a FolderNotFoundException exception. Could anybody please explain what is going wrong?

Thank you in advance.

Here is the code:

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.Flags.Flag;
import javax.mail.internet.*;

import com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder;
import com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPMessage;


public class FolderFetchIMAP {


    public static void main(String[] args) throws MessagingException, IOException {
        IMAPFolder folder = null;
        Store store = null;
        String subject = null;
        Flag flag = null;
        try 
        {
          Properties props = System.getProperties();
          props.setProperty("mail.store.protocol", "imaps");

          Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);

          store = session.getStore("imaps");
          store.connect("imap.googlemail.com","[email protected]", "password");

          folder = (IMAPFolder) store.getFolder("[Gmail]/Spam"); // This doesn't work for other email account
          //folder = (IMAPFolder) store.getFolder("inbox"); This works for both email account


          if(!folder.isOpen())
          folder.open(Folder.READ_WRITE);
          Message[] messages = folder.getMessages();
          System.out.println("No of Messages : " + folder.getMessageCount());
          System.out.println("No of Unread Messages : " + folder.getUnreadMessageCount());
          System.out.println(messages.length);
          for (int i=0; i < messages.length;i++) 
          {

            System.out.println("*****************************************************************************");
            System.out.println("MESSAGE " + (i + 1) + ":");
            Message msg =  messages[i];
            //System.out.println(msg.getMessageNumber());
            //Object String;
            //System.out.println(folder.getUID(msg)

            subject = msg.getSubject();

            System.out.println("Subject: " + subject);
            System.out.println("From: " + msg.getFrom()[0]);
           System.out.println("To: "+msg.getAllRecipients()[0]);
            System.out.println("Date: "+msg.getReceivedDate());
            System.out.println("Size: "+msg.getSize());
            System.out.println(msg.getFlags());
            System.out.println("Body: \n"+ msg.getContent());
            System.out.println(msg.getContentType());

          }
        }
        finally 
        {
          if (folder != null && folder.isOpen()) { folder.close(true); }
          if (store != null) { store.close(); }
        }

    }



}

Answer 1

Is one of the accounts using non-english UI by any chance?

Gmail folder names are localized with respect to the user localization settings.

Currently the only way to get the name of the localized folder is by using XLIST command.

Answer 2

package com.technicalkeeda;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.util.Properties;

import javax.mail.Folder;
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Store;

public class GmailInbox {

 public static void main(String[] args) {
  GmailInbox gmail = new GmailInbox();
  gmail.read();
 }

 public void read() {
  Properties props = new Properties();
  try {
   props.load(new FileInputStream(new File("C:\\smtp.properties")));
   Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);

   Store store = session.getStore("imaps");
   store.connect("smtp.gmail.com", "*************@gmail.com","your_password");

   Folder inbox = store.getFolder("inbox");
   inbox.open(Folder.READ_ONLY);
   int messageCount = inbox.getMessageCount();

   System.out.println("Total Messages:- " + messageCount);

   Message[] messages = inbox.getMessages();
   System.out.println("------------------------------");
   for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
      System.out.println("Mail Subject:- " + messages[i].getSubject());      
   }
   inbox.close(true);
   store.close();

  } catch (Exception e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
  }
 }

}