Java : Using Javamail to read email

Question

I've been working on a program, that's suppose to use javamail, to read through an inbox, and if an email contains a specific String, it should be opened.

First off, this is my first time trying to use this javamail api - I'm pretty sure that my properties are all messed up - Can anyone give me at tip on correctly setting up properties for javamail?

Secondly, it seems like i can connect via the API, but if I try to search for subjects AND the subject is null, I get a null pointer exception - If I however don't try to match the subject with "Ordretest", I get no nullpointer - Any tips would be a great help :)

package vildereMail;

import java.util.Properties;

import javax.mail.Address;
import javax.mail.BodyPart;
import javax.mail.Folder;
import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.Multipart;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Store;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.search.FromTerm;
import javax.mail.search.SearchTerm;
import javax.mail.search.SubjectTerm;

public class vildereMail {


    public boolean match(Message message) {
        try {
            if (message.getSubject().contains("Ordretest")) {
                System.out.println("match found");
                return true;
            }
        } catch (MessagingException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
        return false;
    };
        public static void main(String[] args) {
            Properties props = System.getProperties();
        props.setProperty("mail.store.protocol", "imaps");
            props.put("mail.imap-mail.outlook.com.ssl.enable", "true");
            props.put("mail.pop3.host", "outlook.com");
            props.put("mail.pop3.port", "995");
            props.put("mail.pop3.starttls.enable", "true");
            try {
                Session session = Session.getInstance(props, null);
                Store store = session.getStore();
                store.connect("imap-mail.outlook.com", "[email protected]", "MyPassword");
                session.setDebug(true);
                Folder inbox = store.getFolder("INBOX");
                inbox.open(Folder.READ_ONLY);


                SearchTerm sender = new FromTerm(new InternetAddress("[email protected]"));

                Message[] messages = inbox.search(sender);
                System.out.println(messages);

                for (int i = 0 ; i < messages.length ; i++) {

                    System.out.println(messages[i].getSubject());
                    if (messages[i].getSubject().equals(null)) {
                        System.out.println("null in subject");
                        break;
                    }
                    else if (messages[i].getSubject().contains("Ordretest")){
                        System.out.println("1 match found");
                    }
                    else {
                    System.out.println("no match");
                    }
                }
                System.out.println("no more messages");
                store.close();

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

Answer 1

Without knowing on which line you get the NPE (Null Pointer Exception) I guess it occurs here:

if (messages[i].getSubject().equals(null)) 

If getSubject() returns null and you try to do .equals() it will throw a NPE (because you try to invoke a method). So try to rewrite it to (assuming your message object can't be null):

if (messages[i].getSubject() == null)