JavaMail sending mail attachment from string - encoding UTF-8

Question

My application has to send a textfile, which it first has to generate as a String. The text contains non-ASCII symbols, so i would like it to be UTF-8. I\'ve tried a lot of vari

Answer 1

Give this a try:

String attachment = "Привет";
DataSource ds = new ByteArrayDataSource(attachment, "text/plain; charset=UTF-8");
messageBodyPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(ds));

UPDATE: (full example)

import javax.activation.DataHandler;
import javax.activation.DataSource;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart;
import javax.mail.util.ByteArrayDataSource;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String attachment = "Привет";
        DataSource ds = new ByteArrayDataSource(attachment, "text/plain; charset=UTF-8");
        MimeBodyPart attachmentPart = new MimeBodyPart();
        attachmentPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(ds));

        MimeBodyPart bodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
        bodyPart.setText("Hello this is some text");

        MimeMultipart mp = new MimeMultipart("mixed");
        mp.addBodyPart(bodyPart);
        mp.addBodyPart(attachmentPart);

        MimeMessage msg = new MimeMessage((Session)null);
        msg.setContent(mp);

        msg.writeTo(System.out);
    }
}

output:

Message-ID: <1439781957.1.1297366787857.JavaMail.dnault@dnault.local>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; 
    boundary="----=_Part_0_1579321858.1297366787792"

------=_Part_0_1579321858.1297366787792
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hello this is some text
------=_Part_0_1579321858.1297366787792
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

0J/RgNC40LLQtdGC
------=_Part_0_1579321858.1297366787792--