Read all mails from inbox

Question

It reads only new messages from Inbox whereas I want to read all the messages. How to achieve it?

Folder folderInbox = store.getFolder("INBOX");
folderInbox.open(Folder.READ_ONLY)
Message[] arrayMessages = folderInbox.getMessages();

Answer 1

Could you please try the method Message[] messages = inbox.getMessages(startMessage, endMessage); instead of Message[] arrayMessages = folderInbox.getMessages();

Here the startMessage and endMessage are integer value. A good example taken from here - enter link description here

    Folder inbox = store.getFolder("inbox");
    inbox.open(Folder.READ_WRITE); // Folder.READ_ONLY
    int messageCount = inbox.getMessageCount();
    System.out.println("Total Messages" + messageCount);
    int startMessage = messageCount - 5;
    int endMessage = messageCount;

    if (messageCount < 5) {
        startMessage = 0;
    }

    Message[] messages = inbox.getMessages(startMessage, endMessage);