Is the EMailMessage class capable of sending mails to e-mail addresses using “special” chars ?
For example:
EMailMessage.ToAddress = “CssandraMller@biz.travel”
EMailMessage.ToAddress = “!#$%&’*±/=?^_`{}|~@example.org” // Valid according http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Local_part .
By the way, my question belongs to the class as available in RS 2012 2.1… not sure if there were recent changes in Xojo.
Thank you. 
i don’t think it supports that. But I expect you can encode your email address before adding it to the email message.
You mean using EncodeQuotedPrintable ?
I just wonder how common such addresses are ? For testing purposes I tried to create one on a VPS I’m using, but it doesn’t accept such chars. Then I tried some freemail providers (Yahoo, live.com, web.de) - no chance.
Anyone experienced in this topic ?
There is a newer rfc that describes utf8 support, but there are probably still a lot of systems running built around the older rfcs that would not allow anything beyond basic ascii plus allowed symbols.
I have no idea if the current class supports utf8 for addresses, but if you can find a server that does you could always test it. My guess is that you won’t find many servers that support it yet. RFC 6530
At least EMailMessage accepts UTF-8 and the debugger also shows such e-mail addresses correctly… anyway, I have no server to give this a try.