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4.4 Other Problems/Exceptions

4.4.1 How can I stream attachments into the MailMessage?
4.4.2 How can I create an attachment from a string?
4.4.3 Why does System.Web.Mail work in development and not in production?
4.4.4 I keep getting question marks (?'s) in my email, where characters should be.
4.4.5 System.Web.Mail is truncating the message body.
4.4.6 Attachments added to the MailMessge are corrupt.

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4.4.7 All of my emails are ending up in the /badmail directory.
4.4.8 System.Web.Mail is corrupting my PDF attachments, what gives?

4.4.6 Attachments added to the MailMessge are corrupt. Printer Friendly Email This FAQ Discuss

You may want to try changing the attachment encoding. For example, create your attachments like:

MailAttachment attachment = new MailAttachment( "test.txt", MailEncoding.Base64)
or
MailAttachment attachment = new MailAttachment( "test.txt", MailEncoding.UUEncode)

Also, if you are using this on Windows 2000, there may be a bug in your IIS SMTP Service. Check out
Periods at the Beginning of a Line Are Removed When Placed into the SMTP Pickup Directory
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=286358

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