JavaMail: how to get new messages comparing with time-stamps

I'm trying to get messages after a certain time-stamp, the way I've coded it was suggested by another programmer in this site:

GregorianCalendar date = new GregorianCalendar();
SearchTerm newer = new ReceivedDateTerm(ComparisonTerm.GT,date.getTime());
Message msgs[] = folder.search(newerThen);

The issue is that I get all the messages since the date, not the specific time. I was wondering if there is some work-around to emulate this. I mean, for an instance, if I want to get all the messages since today in the midday I would get those messages spicifically and not those ones received in today's morning.

Thanks in advance,

EDIT:

A new thought concerning to this: perhaps some date manipulation could do the job. I mean, comparing the minutes in the timestamp and filter programmatically those messages that don't fit the criteria. I know it's not the best way, but it could work.

PS: I'm using IMAP and trying to get mails from gmail, but I guess it should work no matter what the mail-s开发者_JAVA技巧erver is.

Unfortunately, no. In this case, the IMAP protocol is being used by the JavaMail classes, and IMAP's SEARCH command takes only dates, not times (see the SINCE and SENTSINCE criteria).

You could use the setTime() method to query for some specific time.

Example:

setTime(timeInMilliseconds)