Java

Get and Set the Email Subject

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.Subject property, which reads or writes the MIME Subject header. When the subject contains non-ASCII characters, Chilkat performs the required MIME header encoding automatically. This example sets a subject and reads it back.

Background: MIME headers were originally restricted to plain ASCII, which is a problem for subjects containing accented letters, emoji, or non-Latin scripts. The solution (RFC 2047) is "encoded-words," where such text is wrapped like =?utf-8?B?...?= so it travels safely through mail systems. You work with the Subject property as ordinary readable text — Chilkat handles the encoding on the way out and the decoding on the way in.

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import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    //  Demonstrates getting and setting the Email.Subject property, which reads or writes
    //  the MIME Subject header.  Chilkat performs the required MIME header encoding when the
    //  subject contains non-ASCII characters.

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();

    email.put_Subject("Meeting agenda for Monday");

    System.out.println("Subject = " + email.subject());
  }
}