Mail Subject gets chopped

**Matt** · Jun 27 '08, 07:58 PM

Re: Mail Subject gets chopped

On Jun 16, 8:24 am, jp2msft <jp2m...@discus sions.microsoft .comwrote:

I've got some code that is chopping my subject line on the messages I
receive, and I do not know why.
>
Our server is running Active Directory and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise.
>
The email is sent, but all we see in the subject line is "S".
>
Here is what I am doing:

Code:

private bool SendMessage(string fcn)
{
  MailMessage email = new MailMessage(fcn, fcn);
  email.SubjectEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
  email.BodyEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
  email.Subject = string.Format("SystemID {0} - {1}", m_systemId,
m_coil.SerialNumber);
  string fmt = "<html><body bgcolor={0}><div><h3>Coil {1}<br/><font
color=\"red\">{2}</fontApproved Override For {3}</h3><hr><table border=1>";
  string body1 = string.Format(fmt, split.Panel1.BackColor.Name,
m_coil.SerialNumber, m_dbase.Supervisor.FullName, m_dbase.Employee.FullName);
  string body2 = string.Empty;
  foreach (ListViewItem i in ListView1.Items)
  {
    if (i.ImageKey == "stop.ico")
    {
      body2 += string.Format("<tr><td>{0} Issue:</td><td><b><font
color=\"green\">{1}</font></b></td></tr>", i.SubItems[0].Text,
i.SubItems[1].Text);
    }
  }
  if (0 < body2.Length)
  {
    string body3 = "</table><hr></div><div>End Of File</div></body></html>";
    email.IsBodyHtml = true;
    email.Body = body1 + body2 + body3;
    SmtpClient Client = new SmtpClient("172.16.8.200");
    try
    {
      Client.Send(email);
    }
    catch (Exception err)
    {
      Console.WriteLine(err.Message);
    }
    finally
    {
      email.Dispose();
    }}
>

I don't see anything obviously wrong with your formatting of the
subject. What is the type
of MailMessage.Sub ject?

Matt

**=?Utf-8?B?anAybXNmdA==?=** · Jun 27 '08, 07:58 PM

Re: Mail Subject gets chopped

Basic stuff. I made some mods so it would fill a string var first, and the
input was this: "SystemID AA_Water_08 - C189335 1107 94"

After spending time with it, I found a MS example on MSDN where they created
just about the entire email in the initialization:

email = new MailMessage(fro mName, toName, subjectValue, bodyValue);

The bodyValue is Text only, so I wrote there that the document was formatted
for HTML, then filled the body with HTML and set the IsHtml flag.

Now it works. I don't really get what the problem was, but I'm up and running.

"Matt" wrote:

On Jun 16, 8:24 am, jp2msft <jp2m...@discus sions.microsoft .comwrote:

I've got some code that is chopping my subject line on the messages I
receive, and I do not know why.

Our server is running Active Directory and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise.

The email is sent, but all we see in the subject line is "S".

Here is what I am doing:

Code:

 private bool SendMessage(string fcn)
 {
   MailMessage email = new MailMessage(fcn, fcn);
   email.SubjectEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
   email.BodyEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
   email.Subject = string.Format("SystemID {0} - {1}", m_systemId,
 m_coil.SerialNumber);
   string fmt = "<html><body bgcolor={0}><div><h3>Coil {1}<br/><font
 color=\"red\">{2}</fontApproved Override For {3}</h3><hr><table border=1>";
   string body1 = string.Format(fmt, split.Panel1.BackColor.Name,
 m_coil.SerialNumber, m_dbase.Supervisor.FullName, m_dbase.Employee.FullName);
   string body2 = string.Empty;
   foreach (ListViewItem i in ListView1.Items)
   {
     if (i.ImageKey == "stop.ico")
     {
       body2 += string.Format("<tr><td>{0} Issue:</td><td><b><font
 color=\"green\">{1}</font></b></td></tr>", i.SubItems[0].Text,
 i.SubItems[1].Text);
     }
   }
   if (0 < body2.Length)
   {
     string body3 = "</table><hr></div><div>End Of File</div></body></html>";
     email.IsBodyHtml = true;
     email.Body = body1 + body2 + body3;
     SmtpClient Client = new SmtpClient("172.16.8.200");
     try
     {
       Client.Send(email);
     }
     catch (Exception err)
     {
       Console.WriteLine(err.Message);
     }
     finally
     {
       email.Dispose();
     }}

>
I don't see anything obviously wrong with your formatting of the
subject. What is the type
of MailMessage.Sub ject?
>
Matt
>

**Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]** · Jun 27 '08, 07:58 PM

Re: Mail Subject gets chopped

jp2msft wrote:

I've got some code that is chopping my subject line on the messages I
receive, and I do not know why.
>
Our server is running Active Directory and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise.
>
The email is sent, but all we see in the subject line is "S".

Sounds like a unicode encoding issue. If you want to use non-ASCII
characters in e-mail, you have to specify the encoding in the MIME headers.
If you want to use Unicode, you have to use UTF-8 encoding. Windows'
default encoding of UTF-16 results in NUL bytes in the stream which would
explain the truncation.

At least this is all true if you use SMTP. If your e-mails are local to an
Exchange Server (you did mean Exchange, not SQL, right?) then different
rules might apply.

>
Here is what I am doing:

Code:

private bool SendMessage(string fcn)
{
 MailMessage email = new MailMessage(fcn, fcn);
 email.SubjectEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
 email.BodyEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
 email.Subject = string.Format("SystemID {0} - {1}", m_systemId,
m_coil.SerialNumber);
 string fmt = "<html><body bgcolor={0}><div><h3>Coil {1}<br/><font
color=\"red\">{2}</fontApproved Override For {3}</h3><hr><table
 border=1>"; string body1 = string.Format(fmt,
split.Panel1.BackColor.Name, m_coil.SerialNumber,
 m_dbase.Supervisor.FullName, m_dbase.Employee.FullName); string
 body2 = string.Empty; foreach (ListViewItem i in ListView1.Items)
 {
   if (i.ImageKey == "stop.ico")
   {
     body2 += string.Format("<tr><td>{0} Issue:</td><td><b><font
color=\"green\">{1}</font></b></td></tr>", i.SubItems[0].Text,
i.SubItems[1].Text);
   }
 }
 if (0 < body2.Length)
 {
   string body3 = "</table><hr></div><div>End Of
   File</div></body></html>"; email.IsBodyHtml = true;
   email.Body = body1 + body2 + body3;
   SmtpClient Client = new SmtpClient("172.16.8.200");
   try
   {
     Client.Send(email);
   }
   catch (Exception err)
   {
     Console.WriteLine(err.Message);
   }
   finally
   {
     email.Dispose();
   }
}

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