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Unknown-8bit OpenPop

I am using OpenPOP Pop3Client to monitor and import emails from a mailbox. I have received a few emails that are causing the following exception:

"'unknown-8bit' is not a supported encoding name. For information on defining a custom encoding, see the documentation for the Encoding.RegisterProvider method.\r\nParameter name: name"

Within the email there is some weird characters – which when i googled said it was UTF-8 charset, one site suggested the following

EncodingFinder.AddMapping("utf8", Encoding.UTF8);

but this didn't work either, any help would be appreciated

Solution

  • I managed to resolve this issue by adding the following line of code before calling the GetMessage() method 

    EncodingFinder.AddMapping("unknown-8bit", Encoding.UTF8);