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How to set From as a name in SparkPost email

I'm using Sparkpost client library for java.
When I set a fromEmailand username to contentAttributes I expect to see Name Name instead of name#mydomain.com in email I have got. But it doesn't work. Is there any way to show Name instead of Email in message?
place where I need my name instead of email address
TemplateContentAttributes contentAttributes = new TemplateContentAttributes();
AddressAttributes addressAttributes = new AddressAttributes();
addressAttributes.setName(username);
addressAttributes.setEmail(fromEmail);
contentAttributes.setFrom(addressAttributes);
contentAttributes.setSubject(subject);
contentAttributes.setHtml(html);
contentAttributes.setText(text);

maintainer of the Java SparkPost library here. I just modified this sample.
I changed it to this:
TemplateContentAttributes contentAttributes = new TemplateContentAttributes();
AddressAttributes fromAddress = new AddressAttributes(from);
fromAddress.setName("My Name");
contentAttributes.setFrom(fromAddress);
And this is the result
Is it possible "username" is an empty string. If you look at the source in your email client do you see the friendly name?
If you are still having problem please share the JSON that is sent to the server.

Creating an email in Java

I would like to "create" an email using Java.
Here's what I mean:
Based on information I already have, I would like to make an email message open in Microsoft Outlook with the fields To, CC, Subject, Message Body, and attachments already populated (all now stored as strings, the directories for attachments are stored as strings as well).
The message needs to open in Outlook for the user to verify the contents and give the opportunity for adding more CC, slight adjustments to subject and message body.
From what I gather, it seems that the "best" way of achieving this is first creating a file on disk that Outlook can read, which contains my message, then opening it with outlook using something similar to the code below.
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process pr = rt.exec("OUTLOOK Directory + CMD switches for opening files");
Ideally, I would like to use a simple framework for simply creating such a file using the strings I already have for the different fields (or achieving the same thing through a a non-simple framework).
If there's no "good" way of achieving the above, I'd settle for a method of just attaching my attachment file to a given Outlook template (.oft) file.
(3. I'll resort to my current solution of simply having the template open in Outlook, the attachment in Explorer, and prompt the user to drag the file into Outlook.)
I've looked at HSMF in Apache POI (I'm Apache POI for other parts of my program), but it appears to be rather experimental at this point, and I've been unable to find much documentation for it.
Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look?

Use the Desktop API with the URI constructor that will quote legal characters. This example code will open your default mail client with the headers populated.
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
URI msg = new URI("mailto", "you#foo.com&cc=team#bar.com&subject=How to create email in Java?body=Use JavaMail.", (String) null);
Desktop.getDesktop().mail(msg);
}
The only limitation is that there is an upper limit to the length of the URI that the O/S can handle. On windows, the 'start' command also understands the syntax which is explained in RFC 2368.

Play Framework - receiving email through SendGrid - character encoding of email body

I am developing a small mail client in the Java Play Framework and I'm using SendGrid for the e-mails. When an e-mail is received, it gets posted to a url and I then parse the posted form using JsonNode. Now the problem is the "to", "from", "subject" fields of that form are automatically converted by SendGrid to UTF-8. Now comes the problem: apparently, the email message body is encoded in "ISO-8859-1". And I need to convert that String to "UTF-8". I already tried several ways of doing so, but most probably I'm doing something very wrong, since I always get strange characters for French or German words containing accents/umlauts (Example "Zürich" comes out as "Z?rich". The code I'm using for the conversion is the following:
byte[] msg = message.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
byte[] msg_utf8 = new String(msg, "ISO-8859-1").getBytes("UTF-8");
message = new String(msg_utf8, "UTF-8");
Could you, please, suggest a solution? Thank you very much in advance!

Ok so I managed to get the raw byte request from SendGrid using the annotation and created the java String with the correct encodings:
#BodyParser.Of(BodyParser.Raw.class)
public static Result getmail() {
...
}
Now the problem is that for retrieving the file attachments from the request I would need the request to be parsed as MultipartFormData. With the annotation above set, I get a NullPointerException when calling, which was predictable:
request().body().asMultipartFormData().getFiles()
Does any of you have any idea on how I could get the same request again, but parsed with the #BodyParser.Of(Bodyparser.MultipartFormData.class) ? So I kind of need to combine the two annotations or find a way to convert the byte[] I get from the Raw parser to a MultiFormData. Thanks!

Oracle Workflow API: adding and accessing file Attachments to a Human Task

I am using the Workflow Services Java API (11.1.1) for SOA Suite to access and manipulate human tasks. I would like to be able to access and add file attachments to existing human tasks. I am using the methods provided in the AttachmentType interface.
When adding an attachment, the problem I am running into is that an attachment does get created and associated with the task, however it is empty and has no content. I have attempted both setting the input stream of the attachment, as well as the content string and in each case have had no success (and setting the content string results in an exception when trying to update the corresponding task).
I have successfully added and accessed an attachment using the worklist application, however when trying to access the content of this attachment through code I receive an object with mostly null/0 values throughout, apart from the attachment name.
The code I am using to access attachments resembles:
List attachments = taskWithAttachments.getAttachment();
for(Object o : attachments){
AttachmentType a = (AttachmentType) o;
String content = a.getContent(); // NULL
InputStream str = a.getInputStream(); // NULL
String name = a.getName(); // Has the attachment name
String mime = a.getMimeType(); // Has the mime type
long size = a.getSize(); // 0
...
}
As the API's are not overly rich in documentation I may well be using them incorrectly. I would really appreciate any help/suggestions/alternatives in dealing with BPEL task attachments.
Thanks

After contacting Oracle for support, it turns out that the attachments portion of the Workflow API is broken in the current release. The fix will be included in a future release.

Set [Automatically wrap text] in Java mail

i have an account register function, after user inputted personal data, an confirm email will be sent to that customer with a generated link. The problem is that: because the link is too long, it is broken into two lines (The second line is from character 76) and the second line does not belong the the first line (User cannot click on the whole link). I think this problem may come from the word wrap or something like that
In Outlook Express, under menu->Tools->Options->Send->HTML setting, we can set number of characters that the email content should be wrapped in each line by changing the value. Is there any way to set this function using core Java Mail?
Thank you in advance.

Word wrapping is done by the viewer (i.e. Outlook Express) not when sending email. I would guess that you are sending plain text emails and relying on the viewers to try and identify that it contains links. Try sending HTML mail and using ''

No, JavaMail is a library allowing you to send/receive email through Java. It is not an application like Outlook/Outlook Express or Thunderbird for that matter.
That said, you can write code that does the formatting before it invokes JavaMail to send the email out.

First, you can't set a setting in java mail to change a client's formatting.
Second, while my solution might not be the best answer to the question. It should help with the problem you are having.
Before adding your link into the body of the mail make sure you;
Put the link on a new line. "\n" ;)
Make a little method using URL shortening API like bitlyj for bit.ly to shorten the URL. Add the shortened link and walla!
msg.setContent("This is an example of adding a shortened URL\n"
+ shortLink("http://www.longlink.com")
+ "\n", "text/plain");
public String shortLink(String link) {
Url url = as("Username", "APIKey").call(shorten(link));
return url.getShortUrl();
}
Using this approach you shouldn't have any issues with word wrap stuff.