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Mail Subject gets chopped

I've got some code that is chopping my subject line on the messages I
receive, and I do not know why.

Our server is running Active Directory and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise.

The email is sent, but all we see in the subject line is "S".

Here is what I am doing:
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  1. private bool SendMessage(string fcn)
  2. {
  3. MailMessage email = new MailMessage(fcn, fcn);
  4. email.SubjectEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
  5. email.BodyEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
  6. email.Subject = string.Format("SystemID {0} - {1}", m_systemId,
  7. m_coil.SerialNumber);
  8. string fmt = "<html><body bgcolor={0}><div><h3>Coil {1}<br/><font
  9. color=\"red\">{2}</fontApproved Override For {3}</h3><hr><table border=1>";
  10. string body1 = string.Format(fmt, split.Panel1.BackColor.Name,
  11. m_coil.SerialNumber, m_dbase.Supervisor.FullName, m_dbase.Employee.FullName);
  12. string body2 = string.Empty;
  13. foreach (ListViewItem i in ListView1.Items)
  14. {
  15. if (i.ImageKey == "stop.ico")
  16. {
  17. body2 += string.Format("<tr><td>{0} Issue:</td><td><b><font
  18. color=\"green\">{1}</font></b></td></tr>", i.SubItems[0].Text,
  19. i.SubItems[1].Text);
  20. }
  21. }
  22. if (0 < body2.Length)
  23. {
  24. string body3 = "</table><hr></div><div>End Of File</div></body></html>";
  25. email.IsBodyHtml = true;
  26. email.Body = body1 + body2 + body3;
  27. SmtpClient Client = new SmtpClient("172.16.8.200");
  28. try
  29. {
  30. Client.Send(email);
  31. }
  32. catch (Exception err)
  33. {
  34. Console.WriteLine(err.Message);
  35. }
  36. finally
  37. {
  38. email.Dispose();
  39. }
  40. }
  41.  
Jun 27 '08 #1
3 1727
On Jun 16, 8:24*am, jp2msft <jp2m...@discussions.microsoft.comwrote:
I've got some code that is chopping my subject line on the messages I
receive, and I do not know why.

Our server is running Active Directory and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise.

The email is sent, but all we see in the subject line is "S".

Here is what I am doing:
Expand|Select|Wrap|Line Numbers
  1. private bool SendMessage(string fcn)
  2. {
  3. * MailMessage email = new MailMessage(fcn, fcn);
  4. * email.SubjectEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
  5. * email.BodyEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
  6. * email.Subject = string.Format("SystemID {0} - {1}", m_systemId,
  7. m_coil.SerialNumber);
  8. * string fmt = "<html><body bgcolor={0}><div><h3>Coil {1}<br/><font
  9. color=\"red\">{2}</fontApproved Override For {3}</h3><hr><table border=1>";
  10. * string body1 = string.Format(fmt, split.Panel1.BackColor.Name,
  11. m_coil.SerialNumber, m_dbase.Supervisor.FullName, m_dbase.Employee.FullName);
  12. * string body2 = string.Empty;
  13. * foreach (ListViewItem i in ListView1.Items)
  14. * {
  15. * * if (i.ImageKey == "stop.ico")
  16. * * {
  17. * * * body2 += string.Format("<tr><td>{0} Issue:</td><td><b><font
  18. color=\"green\">{1}</font></b></td></tr>", i.SubItems[0].Text,
  19. i.SubItems[1].Text);
  20. * * }
  21. * }
  22. * if (0 < body2.Length)
  23. * {
  24. * * string body3 = "</table><hr></div><div>End Of File</div></body></html>";
  25. * * email.IsBodyHtml = true;
  26. * * email.Body = body1 + body2 + body3;
  27. * * SmtpClient Client = new SmtpClient("172.16.8.200");
  28. * * try
  29. * * {
  30. * * * Client.Send(email);
  31. * * }
  32. * * catch (Exception err)
  33. * * {
  34. * * * Console.WriteLine(err.Message);
  35. * * }
  36. * * finally
  37. * * {
  38. * * * email.Dispose();
  39. * * }}
  41.  
I don't see anything obviously wrong with your formatting of the
subject. What is the type
of MailMessage.Subject?

Matt
Jun 27 '08 #2
Basic stuff. I made some mods so it would fill a string var first, and the
input was this: "SystemID AA_Water_08 - C189335 1107 94"

After spending time with it, I found a MS example on MSDN where they created
just about the entire email in the initialization:

email = new MailMessage(fromName, toName, subjectValue, bodyValue);

The bodyValue is Text only, so I wrote there that the document was formatted
for HTML, then filled the body with HTML and set the IsHtml flag.

Now it works. I don't really get what the problem was, but I'm up and running.

"Matt" wrote:
On Jun 16, 8:24 am, jp2msft <jp2m...@discussions.microsoft.comwrote:
I've got some code that is chopping my subject line on the messages I
receive, and I do not know why.

Our server is running Active Directory and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise.

The email is sent, but all we see in the subject line is "S".

Here is what I am doing:
Expand|Select|Wrap|Line Numbers
  1.  private bool SendMessage(string fcn)
  2.  {
  3.    MailMessage email = new MailMessage(fcn, fcn);
  4.    email.SubjectEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
  5.    email.BodyEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
  6.    email.Subject = string.Format("SystemID {0} - {1}", m_systemId,
  7.  m_coil.SerialNumber);
  8.    string fmt = "<html><body bgcolor={0}><div><h3>Coil {1}<br/><font
  9.  color=\"red\">{2}</fontApproved Override For {3}</h3><hr><table border=1>";
  10.    string body1 = string.Format(fmt, split.Panel1.BackColor.Name,
  11.  m_coil.SerialNumber, m_dbase.Supervisor.FullName, m_dbase.Employee.FullName);
  12.    string body2 = string.Empty;
  13.    foreach (ListViewItem i in ListView1.Items)
  14.    {
  15.      if (i.ImageKey == "stop.ico")
  16.      {
  17.        body2 += string.Format("<tr><td>{0} Issue:</td><td><b><font
  18.  color=\"green\">{1}</font></b></td></tr>", i.SubItems[0].Text,
  19.  i.SubItems[1].Text);
  20.      }
  21.    }
  22.    if (0 < body2.Length)
  23.    {
  24.      string body3 = "</table><hr></div><div>End Of File</div></body></html>";
  25.      email.IsBodyHtml = true;
  26.      email.Body = body1 + body2 + body3;
  27.      SmtpClient Client = new SmtpClient("172.16.8.200");
  28.      try
  29.      {
  30.        Client.Send(email);
  31.      }
  32.      catch (Exception err)
  33.      {
  34.        Console.WriteLine(err.Message);
  35.      }
  36.      finally
  37.      {
  38.        email.Dispose();
  39.      }}
  40.  
  41.  

I don't see anything obviously wrong with your formatting of the
subject. What is the type
of MailMessage.Subject?

Matt
Jun 27 '08 #3
jp2msft wrote:
I've got some code that is chopping my subject line on the messages I
receive, and I do not know why.

Our server is running Active Directory and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise.

The email is sent, but all we see in the subject line is "S".
Sounds like a unicode encoding issue. If you want to use non-ASCII
characters in e-mail, you have to specify the encoding in the MIME headers.
If you want to use Unicode, you have to use UTF-8 encoding. Windows'
default encoding of UTF-16 results in NUL bytes in the stream which would
explain the truncation.

At least this is all true if you use SMTP. If your e-mails are local to an
Exchange Server (you did mean Exchange, not SQL, right?) then different
rules might apply.
>
Here is what I am doing:
Expand|Select|Wrap|Line Numbers
  1. private bool SendMessage(string fcn)
  2. {
  3.  MailMessage email = new MailMessage(fcn, fcn);
  4.  email.SubjectEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
  5.  email.BodyEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
  6.  email.Subject = string.Format("SystemID {0} - {1}", m_systemId,
  7. m_coil.SerialNumber);
  8.  string fmt = "<html><body bgcolor={0}><div><h3>Coil {1}<br/><font
  9. color=\"red\">{2}</fontApproved Override For {3}</h3><hr><table
  10.  border=1>"; string body1 = string.Format(fmt,
  11. split.Panel1.BackColor.Name, m_coil.SerialNumber,
  12.  m_dbase.Supervisor.FullName, m_dbase.Employee.FullName); string
  13.  body2 = string.Empty; foreach (ListViewItem i in ListView1.Items)
  14.  {
  15.    if (i.ImageKey == "stop.ico")
  16.    {
  17.      body2 += string.Format("<tr><td>{0} Issue:</td><td><b><font
  18. color=\"green\">{1}</font></b></td></tr>", i.SubItems[0].Text,
  19. i.SubItems[1].Text);
  20.    }
  21.  }
  22.  if (0 < body2.Length)
  23.  {
  24.    string body3 = "</table><hr></div><div>End Of
  25.    File</div></body></html>"; email.IsBodyHtml = true;
  26.    email.Body = body1 + body2 + body3;
  27.    SmtpClient Client = new SmtpClient("172.16.8.200");
  28.    try
  29.    {
  30.      Client.Send(email);
  31.    }
  32.    catch (Exception err)
  33.    {
  34.      Console.WriteLine(err.Message);
  35.    }
  36.    finally
  37.    {
  38.      email.Dispose();
  39.    }
  40. }
  41.  

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