Javamail and adding link to text

Question

I am using Javamail. Within the MimeMessage.setText, I have to include code that encodes text as a URL. For the purposes like below.

BodyPart messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();

messageBodyPart.setText("Test\n" + text +"\nVisit Test.com");`

In this I need Test.com to be embedded as a URL. Is there a tag or wildcard that would do this? Thanks.

Basically I would prefer to avoid using html in the javamail and utilizing the following.

Test.com

Answer 1

If you want the link to be clickable in the mail, you should send the mail as HTML.

To do this, you should try to create an HTML MIME mail:

InternetHeaders headers = new InternetHeaders();
headers.addHeader("Content-type", "text/html; charset=UTF-8");
String html = "Test\n" + text + "\n<a href='http://test.com'>Test.com</a>";
MimeBodyPart body = new MimeBodyPart(headers, html.getBytes("UTF-8"));

EDIT:

It is also possible to use setText when sending HTML-mail:

String html = "Test\n" + text + "\n<a href='http://test.com'>Test.com</a>";
messageBodyPart.setText(html, "UTF-8", "html");

See the the API for more details

Answer 2

A couple of things need to happen for this to work.

1. Send the link as html
2. Set the content type to text/html

String text = "Test\n" + text +"\nVisit <a href="http://test.com">Test.com</a>"; messageBodyPart.setContent(text, "text/html");

From JavaMail API FAQ

Q: How do I send HTML mail? A: There are a number of demo programs included with the distribution that show how to send HTML mail. If you want to send a simple message that has HTML instead of plain text, see the sendhtml.java program in the demo directory. If you want to send an HTML file as an attachment, see the sendfile.java example that shows how to send any file as an attachment.