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Why doesn the MimeMessage class implement Serializable so that I can serialize a message to disk and read it back later?

April 26, 2017class disk implement later message mimemessage read serializable serialize

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Why doesn the MimeMessage class implement Serializable so that I can serialize a message to disk and read it back later?

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The JavaMail API was designed to layer on top of existing email systems, using existing message formats. The ability to use Java serialization was neither essential nor useful for such implementations, and thus was not considered a goal of the JavaMail API.