I'm attempting to display an HTML preview of a .msg file using Java for my backend. However, when I use Apache POI to read the .msg file, I only receive the content in either plain text or RTF format. The RTF format does contain the HTML content, but I'm struggling to parse it into HTML for the email preview on my website. I attempted to parse the RTF content using Apache Tika, but it was unsuccessful. Currently, I am using the method detailed in this stackoveflow thread, but it's not parsing all the HTML tags. Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?
Here is the code I am using:
public static String rtfToHtml(String rtfText)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
if (rtfText != null)
{
String[] lignes = rtfText.split("[\\r\\n]+");
for (String ligne : lignes)
{
String tempLine = ligne.replaceAll("\\{\\\\\\*\\\\[m]?htmltag[\\d]*([^}]*)\\}", "$1")
.replaceAll("\\\\htmlrtf0([^\\\\]*)\\\\htmlrtf", "$1")
.replaceAll("\\\\htmlrtf \\{(.*)\\}\\\\htmlrtf0", "$1")
.replaceAll("\\\\htmlrtf (.*)\\\\htmlrtf0", "")
.replaceAll("\\\\htmlrtf[0]?", "")
.replaceAll("\\\\field\\{\\\\\\*\\\\fldinst\\{[^}]*\\}\\}", "")
.replaceAll("\\{\\\\fldrslt\\\\cf1\\\\ul([^}]*)\\}", "$1")
.replaceAll("\\\\htmlbase", "")
.replaceAll("\\\\*\\\bkmkstart BM\\_", "")
.replaceAll("\\\\par", "\n")
.replaceAll("\\\\tab", "\t")
.replaceAll("\\\\line", "\n")
.replaceAll("\\\\page", "\n\n")
.replaceAll("\\\\sect", "\n\n")
.replaceAll("\\\\emdash", "ߞ")
.replaceAll("\\\\endash", "ߝ")
.replaceAll("\\\\emspace", "ߓ")
.replaceAll("\\\\enspace", "ߒ")
.replaceAll("\\\\qmspace", "ߕ")
.replaceAll("\\\\bullet", "ߦ")
.replaceAll("\\\\lquote", "ߢ")
.replaceAll("\\\\rquote", "ߣ")
.replaceAll("\\\\ldblquote", "ÉC;")
.replaceAll("\\\\rdblquote", "ÉD;")
.replaceAll("\\\\row", "\n")
.replaceAll("\\\\cell", "|")
.replaceAll("\\\\nestcell", "|")
.replaceAll("([^\\\\])\\{", "$1")
.replaceAll("([^\\\\])}", "$1")
.replaceAll("[\\\\](\\{)", "$1")
.replaceAll("[\\\\](})", "$1")
.replaceAll("\\\\u([0-9]{2,5})", "&#$1;")
.replaceAll("\\\\'([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})", "&#x$1;")
.replaceAll("\"cid:(.*)@.*\"", "\"$1\"")
.replaceAll(" {2,}", " ")
.replaceAll("\\\\htmlrtf[1]?(.*)\\\\htmlrtf0", "")
.replaceAll("\\\\htmlrtf[01]?", "");
if (!tempLine.replaceAll("\\s+", "").isEmpty())
{
sb.append(tempLine).append("\r\n");
}
}
rtfText = sb.toString();
int index = rtfText.indexOf("<html");
if (index != -1)
{
return rtfText.substring(index);
}
}
return null;
}
InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
MAPIMessage msgMessage = new MAPIMessage(inputStream);
return rtfToHtml(msgMessage.getRtfBody());
I tried using Apache Tika but it was not able to parse the content and was returning empty HTML
public String convertUsingApacheTika(String rtfString) throws TikaException, IOException, SAXException
{
Tika tika = new Tika();
InputStream stream = TikaInputStream.get(rtfString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
BodyContentHandler handler = new BodyContentHandler(-1);
Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
AutoDetectParser parser = new AutoDetectParser();
parser.parse(stream, handler, metadata);
String htmlString = handler.toString();
return htmlString;
}
*.msgfiles are not the best choice for email display. If you can get the emails as*.eml(perhaps by pulling them directly from the mail box server), you can use Jakarta Mail to parse them, and to extract the HTML portion (as HTML). This HTML is (usually) complete and can be displayed as is.RDOSession.MessageFromMsgFile/RDOMail.HTMLBodywould give you the HTML. Or you can save it in MHTML (if you want to handle embedded HTML images) or EML formats usingRDOMail.SaveAs.