The recent availability of low cost (or no cost) Email services, (such as Google's Gmail),
which provide massive storage capacity, advanced features, and
lightening-fast search capability has caused many of us to rethink the
way that we manage Email.

A whole new outlook

Up until recently,
I managed my Email pretty much the same as almost everyone else.
I downloaded the messages from several different Email accounts into an
Email client program, (Netscape Mail in my case), read messages, deleted messages, filed messages, etc.

Since getting my
Gmail account in May of 2005, I have discovered that there is a much
better way to manage Email. Quite simply, in my opinion, Gmail is
the finest Email program that I have ever seen. It has completely
changed my outlook (no pun intended) on how to manage Email.

Solving some operational problems

However, making the
switch to Gmail does involve a few operational problems, none of which
are of Google's making. The lessons in this series of lessons are
intended to show you how I have elected to write special Java programs
to deal with those operational problems.

Viewing tip

You may find it
useful to open another copy of this lesson in a separate browser
window. That will make it easier for you to scroll back and forth
among the different listings and figures while you are reading about
them.

One lesson in a series of lessons

This is the second
lesson in a series of lessons on the general topic of moving Email
messages around among servers and local computers. The first and
previous lesson in the series was entitled Consolidating Email using Java.

Supplementary material

I recommend that
you also study the other lessons in my extensive collection of online
Java tutorials. You will find those lessons published at Gamelan.com.

However, as of the date of this writing, Gamelan doesn't maintain a
consolidated index of my Java tutorial lessons, and sometimes they are
difficult to locate there. You will find a consolidated index at www.DickBaldwin.com.