Send iso-8859-1 Email with European Accented Characters

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C# source code example to send an email using iso-8859-1 characters.

	bool success = false;

	// Create a mailman object for sending email.
	Chilkat.MailMan mailman = new Chilkat.MailMan();

	// Any string argument automatically begins the 30-day trial.
	mailman.UnlockComponent("30-day trial");

	// Set the SMTP server.
	mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.earthlink.net";

	// Create an email that uses characters with diacritics (accented characters)
	Chilkat.Email email = new Chilkat.Email();

	// Set the basic email stuff: body, subject, "from", "to"
	email.Body = "Þ ß à á This is the email body";
	email.Subject = "Þ ß à á This is the email subject";
	email.AddTo("Þ ß à á","support@chilkatsoft.com");
	email.From = "Þ ß à á <programmer@chilkatsoft.com>";

	// Chilkat should automatically recognize this as having characters with diacritics,
	// and will by default encode the email as iso-8859-1
	// It is possible to verify this by examining the full MIME text of the email:
	MessageBox.Show(email.GetMime());

	// The MIME that Chilkat generates for this email looks like this:
	/*
	 * 
		MIME-Version: 1.0
		Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 15:18:45 -0500
		Message-ID: <CHILKAT-MID-d8e999ca-2691-48ef-9e10-abedbbaad1c1@DotNetDev>
		X-Mailer: Chilkat Software Inc (http://www.chilkatsoft.com)
		X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
		Content-Type: text/plain;
			charset="iso-8859-1"
		Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
		subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DE_=DF_=E0_=E1_This_is_the_email_subject?=
		To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DE_=DF_=E0_=E1?= <support@chilkatsoft.com>
		From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DE_=DF_=E0_=E1?= <programmer@chilkatsoft.com>
		return-path: programmer@chilkatsoft.com

		=DE =DF =E0 =E1 This is the email body
	*/

	// To be absolutely sure the email is encoded as iso-8859-1, set the Charset property:
	email.Charset = "iso-8859-1";
	// One point to remember: Chilkat does not "Q" encode header fields that do not need encoding.
	// (i.e. fields that are 7-bit us-ascii already and have no accented (8-bit) characters)

	success = mailman.SendEmail(email);
	if (success)
	{
		MessageBox.Show("Sent email!");
	}
	else
	{
		MessageBox.Show(mailman.LastErrorText);
	}

Important: The download for this example does not contain the ChilkatDotNet.dll which
must be downloaded and installed separately at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/downloads.asp.
Once installed, add a reference to the DLL in the project by following the instructions at
http://www.example-code.com/vbdotnet/step2.asp