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Posted on by Morten Steengaard 555

Hi experts,

I use Business Central version 13 on-prem.

I have made a new codeunit that uses codeunit "SMTP Mail" to send an e-mail. It works fine (also with Danish characters in the e-mail subject and body).

But if I add an attachment (a pdf-file), the Danish characters in the e-mail subject, is shown wrongly in Outlook.

The header of the e-mail has this, when it works:

Subject: Løn: Test mail

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

and this, when it does not work:

Subject: Løn: Test mail

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

                      boundary="--boundary_28_3eeb0768-ce3e-47ce-810a-b3510541816c"

The subject of the e-mail with the attachment is shown as "Løn: Test mail".

Here is my codeunit:

SMTP.CreateMessage('From me', 'my-email@gmail.dk', 'my-email@gmail.dk', 'Løn: Test mail', 'The body', false);

SMTP.AddAttachment('C:\\temp\\Some-real-file.pdf','The-filename-to-show-in-the-mail.pdf');

SMTP.TrySend;

If I outcomment AddAttachment, everything works fine. If I add the attachment, the DotNet "Mail" object in codeunit "SMTP Mail" forgets that it is in Denmark.

Hope you can help.

Morten

  • Suggested answer
    Nitin Verma Profile Picture
    Nitin Verma 21,569 Moderator on at
    RE: Local characters in e-mail subject

    Hi,

    Good to know, that its working now.

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    Morten Steengaard Profile Picture
    Morten Steengaard 555 on at
    RE: Local characters in e-mail subject

    Hi both,

    Thank you for your reply.

    I haven't tried your latest suggestion, Nitin.

    The problem is solved. The mail server was set up in a wrong way and everything works fine now, as we use another server.

    Best regards,

    Morten

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    Nitin Verma Profile Picture
    Nitin Verma 21,569 Moderator on at
    RE: Local characters in e-mail subject

    Hi,

    Do one thing, Create a Text constant of your Subject part and call that text constant as your emailmessage's subject parameter. In your case it would be Label instead of TextConstant.

    Name ConstValue

    EmailSubj Løn: Test mail

    SMTP.CreateMessage('From me', 'my-email@gmail.dk', 'my-email@gmail.dk', EmailSubj, 'The body', false);

    Thanks.

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    Marco Mels Profile Picture
    Marco Mels on at
    RE: Local characters in e-mail subject

    Hello,

    If you can provide a repro in standard CRONUS Denmark A/S company, feel free to raise it to Microsoft via partnercenter.microsoft.com .

    Thank you.

  • Morten Steengaard Profile Picture
    Morten Steengaard 555 on at
    RE: Local characters in e-mail subject

    Hi Nitin,

    Thank you for your reply.

    I have tried both with "true" and "false" in the last parameter. That didn't help.

    The pdf file that I have, has been made by a module called Lessor Payroll. It is not something that I create. And I don't have a report with number 10075.

    I have tried to do this:

    SMTP.CreateMessage('From me', 'my-email@gmail.dk', 'my-email@gmail.dk', 'Løn: Test mail', 'The body', false);

    ltServerFileName := FileManagement.ServerTempFileName('PDF');

    ltServerFileName := FileManagement.GetDirectoryName(ltServerFileName) + '\MS.PDF';

    FileManagement.CopyClientFile('C:\\temp\\MS.PDF', ltServerFileName, true);

    SMTP.AddAttachment(ltServerFileName, FileManagement.GetFileName(ltServerFileName));

    SMTP.TrySend;

    I cannot copy the file, because "access to the path is denied".

    ---

    I have also tried my original solution with a new txt-file, that I have saved as UTF-8. That didn't help either:

    SMTP.CreateMessage('From me', 'my-email@gmail.dk', 'my-email@gmail.dk', 'Løn: Test mail', 'The body', false);

    SMTP.AddAttachment('C:\\temp\\Some-real-file.txt','The-filename-to-show-in-the-mail.txt');

    SMTP.TrySend;

  • Nitin Verma Profile Picture
    Nitin Verma 21,569 Moderator on at
    RE: Local characters in e-mail subject

    Hi,

    Try two things with yellow mark.

    1. SMTP.CreateMessage('From me', 'my-email@gmail.dk', 'my-email@gmail.dk', 'Løn: Test mail', 'The body', true);

    2. Save the attached in servertemp file and then load it in attachment


    FileMgt Codeunit File Management

    ltServerFileName := FileMgt.ServerTempFileName('PDF');
    ltServerFileName := FileMgt.GetDirectoryName(ltServerFileName) + '\Order.PDF';

    I am guessing here you are sending your document PDF file from Posted Data

    SalesHeader.filters

    IF REPORT.SAVEASPDF(10075,ltServerFileName,SalesHeader) THEN BEGIN
    SMTP.AddAttachment(ltServerFileName,FileMgt.GetFileName(ltServerFileName));

    SMTP.trysend;

    Not sure will it work for you.

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