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Force Quoted-Printable Encoding for Email

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Demonstrates how to force the quoted-printable encoding for email.

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Local $bSuccess = False

$oEmail = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")

$oEmail.Subject = "test"
$oEmail.From = "bob@example.com"
$oEmail.AddTo("Mary","mary@example.com")

; Add plain-text and HTML alternative bodies.
; Include some "=" chars so we can see the quoted-printable encoding when used..
$oEmail.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody("This is a test == Hello World!")
$oEmail.AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<html><body>This is a test == Hello World!</body></html>")

; Examine the MIME of the email to see that it does not use quoted-printable.
; (If the email contained non-usascii chars, it would automatically use quoted-printable.)
$oMailman = ObjCreate("Chilkat.MailMan")
ConsoleWrite($oMailman.RenderToMime($oEmail) & @CRLF)

; Here is the MIME before forcing quoted-printable.
; Notice the Content-Transfer-Encoding is "7bit" (not "quoted-printable")

; MIME-Version: 1.0
; Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:26:52 -0500
; Message-ID: <CF274FC0A2F82B98A05B7507DF7DFB966A2C0EB8@CHILKATSLICE>
; Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
;  boundary="------------080901080902080000030208"
; X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
; Subject: test
; From: bob@example.com
; To: Mary <mary@example.com>
; 
; --------------080901080902080000030208
; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
; 
; This is a test == Hello World!
; --------------080901080902080000030208
; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
; Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
; 
; <html><body>This is a test == Hello World!</body></html>
; --------------080901080902080000030208--

ConsoleWrite("----" & @CRLF)

; To force quoted-printable, set the Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
; It will automatically propagate as needed to the MIME sub-parts.
$oEmail.AddHeaderField "Content-Transfer-Encoding","quoted-printable"
ConsoleWrite($oMailman.RenderToMime($oEmail) & @CRLF)

; MIME-Version: 1.0
; Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:26:52 -0500
; Message-ID: <F36B276E3A720FE5111D15CE9142C8909E1F5AB9@CHILKATSLICE>
; Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
;  boundary="------------080901080902080000030208"
; X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
; Subject: test
; From: bob@example.com
; To: Mary <mary@example.com>
; 
; --------------080901080902080000030208
; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
; 
; This is a test =3D=3D Hello World!
; --------------080901080902080000030208
; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
; Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
; 
; <html><body>This is a test =3D=3D Hello World!</body></html>
; --------------080901080902080000030208--