I am using GMail (Google Apps) as an SMTP server in my website to send out emails. The mails were being sent out fine, until today, when I noticed that the encoding seemed to be wonky.
In Yahoo, the entire message is shown as Chinese characters (the mail is entirely in English). In Hotmail, the subject of the mail was in Chinese characters.
The below is my email code:
Dim SMTPMail = New SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
SMTPMail.EnableSsl = True
SMTPMail.UseDefaultCredentials = False
Dim MailAuthentication = New NetworkCredential("mailer@website.com", "blahblah")
SMTPMail.Credentials = MailAuthentication
Dim EmailMessage As New MailMessage(New MailAddress(FromAddress), New MailAddress(ToAddress))
EmailMessage.BodyEncoding = Encoding.Unicode
EmailMessage.Subject = "Blah blah"
EmailMessage.Body = "Blah blah"
EmailMessage.Priority = Priority
EmailMessage.IsBodyHtml = True
EmailMessage.From = New MailAddress(FromAddress)
SMTPMail.Send(EmailMessage)
The encoding in the header as shown by Yahoo are:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-16
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Any idea why this is happening?
If your entire message is in English (US-ASCII), then remove this line: