Sending Mail using SMTP

[Philip]

Hi,

I am trying to send mail using the SMTP protocol. Everything works fine.
But if I add an attachment, the attachment is displayed as text and not as
an attachment file. I am using UUEncode to encode the attachment.

I have a similar component in VB6 which works perfectly. When porting it
to VB.Net it gives this error. I have a feeling that It has to do with the
ASCII/UNICODE encoding. In VB6, strings are by default in Unicode. However
it seems that in VB.Net strings are in Ascii and converting them to Unicode
dosent seem to work properly (or may be i am wrong).

Another observation, the mail size (with attachment) when sent using VB6
is almost double that of the the mail size (with attachment) when sent using
VB.Net

Could someone pl help

regards
Philip

[Phil Weber]

> I have a similar component in VB6 which works perfectly.
> When porting it to VB.NET it gives this error.

Philip: What error?

> I have a feeling that It has to do with the ASCII/UNICODE
> encoding. In VB6, strings are by default in Unicode. However
> it seems that in VB.NET strings are in Ascii and converting
> them to Unicode doesn't seem to work properly (or maybe
> I am wrong).

You are. ;-) Strings are Unicode by default in VB.NET.
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Phil Weber

[Phil Weber]

> I am trying to send mail using the SMTP protocol. Everything
> works fine. But if I add an attachment, the attachment is
> displayed as text and not as an attachment file. I am using
> UUEncode to encode the attachment.

Philip: See if you find this example helpful:
http://www.harrisonlogic.com/HL/Code/sendmailaspnet.asp
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Phil Weber