If i send Emails with CURLSMBS from @Christian Schmitz , created from the source of an EmailMessage object, i get complaints from many receipients that they see strange symbols in my Mails.
Betreff is a TextField
Nachricht is a Formatted Text Control by BKeeney
UploadData is a String
Anhaenge is an EmailAttachement object
[code] Dim em as new EmailMessage
Dim BodyText As String
BodyText = Nachricht.Text
em.AddRecipient OptionMailRecipient
em.Headers.AppendHeader “Mime-Version”, “1.0”
em.Headers.AppendHeader “Content-type”, “text/html; charset=utf-8”
em.Headers.AppendHeader “Content-Transfer-Encoding”, “8bit”
em.Headers.AppendHeader “Content-Language”, “de-DE”
em.Headers.AppendHeader “X-Mailer”, "myMailer " + App.ShortVersion // Changed for the Forum
em.Headers.AppendHeader “Reply-To”, “my@mail.xyz” // Changed for the Forum
em.Headers.AppendHeader “Message-ID”, “<” + mail_MessageID + “@maol.xyz> // Changed for the Forum”
em.Subject = EncodingToISO8859MBS(Betreff.Text).DefineEncoding(Encodings.ASCII)
em.BodyPlainText = Nachricht.Text.ConvertEncoding(Encodings.ASCII) // <- This part seems to cause issues?
em.BodyHTML = Nachricht.HTMLOutput // <- This Part seems to be fine
Encodings.ASCII strips all accented characters, so it should not show “strange symbols” at all.
It would help if you could get a screen capture of the characters in question so you can see what they look like.
Since German, like French, makes use of accented characters, I would be inclined to suspect an incorrect HTML encoding, or a bad decoding from the mail client. In particular, I have observed that sometimes the wrong Unicode is use for accented characters, leading to an incorrect reception on Mac. Or the other way around. I believe it may have to do with an incorrect coding of the Unicode value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_and_HTML
For instance, “” will render correctly as ISO-8859-1 if coded (Windows CP-1252) but it will show as if coded (MacRoman). I see that regularly.
maybe build emails with CURLEmailMBS class instead of EmailMessage?
I put a lot of work into it to make standard conform emails and prefer all characters.
[quote=163906:@Michel Bujardet]Encodings.ASCII strips all accented characters, so it should not show “strange symbols” at all.
It would help if you could get a screen capture of the characters in question so you can see what they look like.
Since German, like French, makes use of accented characters, I would be inclined to suspect an incorrect HTML encoding, or a bad decoding from the mail client. In particular, I have observed that sometimes the wrong Unicode is use for accented characters, leading to an incorrect reception on Mac. Or the other way around. I believe it may have to do with an incorrect coding of the Unicode value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_and_HTML
For instance, “é” will render correctly as ISO-8859-1 if coded é (Windows CP-1252) but it will show as if coded (MacRoman). I see that regularly.[/quote]
Thank you Michel. Plenty of valuable information here!
[quote=163907:@Christian Schmitz]maybe build emails with CURLEmailMBS class instead of EmailMessage?
I put a lot of work into it to make standard conform emails and prefer all characters.
