MSG format - problems with German "umlaute"

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1

Hi,

I was trying your .net demo in the web and provided a subject “äöü” (nonsense, but full of “umlaute”). The resulting .eml file was fine in Thunderbird, but the .msg file did show a “???” in Outlook. I see a problem with the subject encoding here.

Any suggestions?
Regards

2

Hi,

Thank you for inquiry.

The demo uses MailMessage.Save(“filename.msg”, MailMessageSaveType.OutlookMessageFormat) and it does not handle such characters.

But, you can use MailMessage.Save(“filename.msg”, MailMessageSaveType.OutlookMessageFormatUnicode) to handle German “umlaute”.

MailMessage message = new MailMessage("from@domain.com", "to@domain.com");
message.Subject = “ä,ö,ü”;
message.HtmlBody = “ä,ö,ü”;
message.Save(“test-unicode.msg”, MailMessageSaveType.OutlookMessageFormatUnicode);

3

Thanks for the hint. Unfortunately this doesn’t work for me, because I need to save it as MapiMessage in order to produce a draft. MapiMessage.Save doesnt’t have an overload which accepts the MailMessageSaveType


Regards
4

Hi,

In that case, you may use the overloaded MapiMessage.FromMailMessage() method as below:

MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
message.Subject = “review this email - ä,ö,ü”;
// set other properties

// get the MapiMessage intance
MapiMessage msg = MapiMessage.FromMailMessage(message, OutlookMessageFormat.Unicode);
msg.SetMessageFlags(MapiMessageFlags.MSGFLAG_UNSENT);
msg.Save(“test.msg”);

5

Yes, that works. Meanwhile I had another solution, but your's is better. I saved the file as msg first and reopened it as MapiMessage before saving it again.

I'm now having another problem, which prevents me to use Aspose.Network, but I will explain it in another thread.

Thanks for now.