How can I send an email from Java that will auto-expire in Outlook?

Question

I am familiar with sending email from Java programs. Is it possible to configure the email so that Outlook will recognize that it should expire at a certain time?

Answer 1

Add an "Expiry-Date" Header (see RFC1327).

Answer 2

I believe Outlook honors the, now deprecated, Expiry-Date header. You can add this to the MimeMessage headers. The format for the value is "EEE, d MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss Z"

Answer 3

Add a header to the MimeMessage called "Expiry-Date" using the (joda-time) format "EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss yyyy Z"

The other answers are good, but I used a slightly different format.