Mail encoding problem

[Jan Agermose]

Im trying to send mail using this code:

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();

mail.From = "fe**@mydomain.com";

mail.Subject = "some subject";

mail.Priority = MailPriority.Normal;

mail.Body = body;

mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Text;

mail.To = to;

SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "XXXX";

SmtpMail.Send( mail );

Using the same SmtpServer the result if this is very different depending on
the client computer running the code. If using Danish chars "æøåÆØÅ" that
is. I guess this is due to different locale settings on the client
computers.

But how can I get passed this problem? I tried

mail.BodyEncoding = "iso-8859-1";

(and some other encodings)

But this makes it even worse.... This mail is unreadable on the reciving
end. What setting on the client computer sets the encoding on the mail -
what should I check to find the problem?

Jan Agermose

[Jan Agermose]

On the client that works this is part of the header information:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000

And this is some of the headerinformation on the client that sends
unreadable mail

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000

How do I set "Content-Transfer-Encoding"????

Ragrds
Jan Agermose

"Jan Agermose" <ms**@csite.com> wrote in message
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Im trying to send mail using this code:

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();

mail.From = "fe**@mydomain.com";

mail.Subject = "some subject";

mail.Priority = MailPriority.Normal;

mail.Body = body;

mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Text;

mail.To = to;

SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "XXXX";

SmtpMail.Send( mail );

Using the same SmtpServer the result if this is very different depending on the client computer running the code. If using Danish chars "æøåÆØÅ" that
is. I guess this is due to different locale settings on the client
computers.

But how can I get passed this problem? I tried

mail.BodyEncoding = "iso-8859-1";

(and some other encodings)

But this makes it even worse.... This mail is unreadable on the reciving
end. What setting on the client computer sets the encoding on the mail -
what should I check to find the problem?

Jan Agermose

[Jacob Yang [MSFT]]

Hi Jan,

I am not familiar with the Danish so I have not fully tested this issue.
Thank you for your understanding.

Based on my research and experience, please try to set the Encoding to
Unicode and test this issue again:

1. mail.BodyEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;

2. mail.BodyEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;

3. mail.BodyEncoding = Encoding.UTF7;

If I have misunderstood your concern, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,

Jacob Yang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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