Tech Note: Sending and Receiving E-Mails in Unicode

PRODUCT: 4D | VERSION: 11.4 | PLATFORM: Mac & Win

Published On: April 30, 2009

Starting with 4D Internet Commands for 4D v11 SQL, the developer can now send and receive e-mails of various languages with relative ease; this is because 4D v11 SQL works in Unicode and has the ability of converting to and from various character sets irrespective of the system language. This Tech Note describes the basic concepts related to the e-mail protocol while pointing out some limitations that one may possibly face when attempting to send and receive e-mails in Unicode with 4D Internet Commands. A sample component is provided as a sample solution.

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Commented by Designer on September 10, 2009 at 11:49 AM

Hi Daniel, the source has been updated and uploaded. We apologize for any inconvenience, but thanks for pointing this out to us!

Commented by Daniel Nestor Solenthaler on September 9, 2009 at 3:53 AM

I experienced problems with quoted-printable encoded mails. The code provided will cut spaces in the subject and truncate the body text.

Commented by Luis on May 8, 2009 at 9:56 AM

This Technical Note contains excellent routines to find the email address, sender, date and time values from the email header using 4D v11 SQL support for Regular Expressions (Match regex).