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Imap cyrillic mail

I use the mailsystem.NET library to put a message in my inbox. This is my code:

Imap4Client imap = new Imap4Client();
imap.ConnectSsl("imap.gmail.com", 993);
imap.Login(mylogin, mypassword);
Mailbox mails;
mails = imap.SelectMailbox("INBOX");
Message commomMessage = new Message();
commomMessage.From = new Address("someAddress", "someName");
commomMessage.To.Add(mylogin, "myName");
commomMessage.Subject = "someSubject";
commomMessage.BodyHtml.Text = "Привет мир";//or some cyrillic text 
commomMessage.Date = DateTime.Now;
mails.Append(commomMessage);

When I open my gmail inbox, I see this mail, but the body contains ????? ??? rather than "привет мир". If commomMessage.BodyHtml.Text contains only Latin characters, there is no problem.

Solution

  • If Message class inherits from .NET's MailMessage class try using it's BodyEncoding property and set it to System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, for example:

    commomMessage.BodyEncoding =  System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;

    If Message class doesn't inherit from MailMessage try to find other way of setting the appropriate encoding for your e-mail message. I believe it's the issue that you can fix by using UTF8 encoding.