Tobias Rapp wrote: > Thanks Arno for the help. > > Would it also work if I would set Allow8BitChars to TRUE, Charset to > "UTF-8" and manually encode all string properties like "HdrTo", > "HdrSubject" and "MailMessage.Text" using Utf8Encode()?
Just Utf8Encode() isn't enough. In headers only 7-bit ASCII is allowed. You would have to MIME-inline-encode those header lines yourself. This is rather difficult, especially when header lines have to be wrapped around since their length actually is limited and should not exceed 76 bytes plus 2 bytes for the CR/LF (I've seen mails completely re-encoded by some MTA when header lines exceeded this limit). So if you use UTF-8 encoded strings and set Charset = 'UTF-8' and both Allow8BitChars and ConvertToCharset to FALSE. MailMessage.Text then has to contain UTF-8 text as well and the component will MIME encode the content if required (if at least one 8-bit character is found in MailMessage.Text). This is the safest way, even though most email programs and MTAs are capable to handle 8-bit text content today I would not rely on that. > > My assumption was that the header lines should not contain non-ASCII > characters, but maybe it is legal to use UTF-8 if the header also > declares something like > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > What is your opinion? See above, the charset in content-type as well as the transfer-encoding header is related to the content not to the header itself. Currently TSmtpCli's 'smart mode' as described above doesn't allow 8-bit chars in text content. -- Arno Garrels -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
