I’m using Java Mail API and I’m trying to send an email through Gmail’s SMTP.
How my program works:
java.util.Scanner class is used to get user input – I’m asking user for various parameters to be used in mail sending class; which does the following:
Message mailMessage = new MimeMessage(session);
mailMessage.setFrom(new InternetAddress("example@example.com"));
mailMessage.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO,InternetAddress.parse(mail.getTo()));
mailMessage.setSubject(mail.getSubject());
mailMessage.setText(mail.getMessage());
Transport.send(mailMessage);
Everything works as long as I use ASCII symbols/ chars. But whenever I want to use “country-specific” characters – like [õäöü] – I get bunch of weird-looking symbols…
Techniques I’ve used so far(which don’t work for me):
setHeader("Content-Type", "text/plain; charset=UTF-8");
setHeader("Content-Encoding","ISO-8859-9");
setContent(message, "text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2");
Note: everything is displayed correctly inside an IDE when System.out.println() is performed to display the message to be sent.
EDIT: e.x. when sent message body is [õäöü]
It’s displayed [ä„”?] in Gmail.
EDIT: When mailMessage.setText(MimeUtility.encodeText(mail.getMessage(), "UTF-8", "Q")); is used, then the output in Gmail is following:
"=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A4=E2=80=9E=E2=80=9D=EF=BF=BD;=0D=0A?="
ANOTHER EDIT: Interestingly, when I do: mailMessage.setText(strVar + "õäöü", "ISO-8859-1");
It actually appends “õäöü” nicely in my email (but the first part[strVar] of the string is still full of ?’s and []’s).
Basically, my code works just fine, as its supposed to. It was the cmd, that could not handle non-ascii letters. I used a bat file to access a jar. I think I’m just going to make a little GUI then… Thanks everyone for answering.