 | ContentEncoding Enumeration |
An enumeration of all supported content transfer encodings.
Namespace: MimeKit
Assembly: MimeKit (in MimeKit.dll) Version: 3.0.0
SyntaxC#
public enum ContentEncoding
Members| Member name | Value | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Default | 0 | The default encoding (aka no encoding at all). | |
| SevenBit | 1 | The 7bit content transfer encoding. This encoding should be restricted to textual content in the US-ASCII range. | |
| EightBit | 2 | The 8bit content transfer encoding. This encoding should be restricted to textual content outside of the US-ASCII range but may not be supported by all transport services such as older SMTP servers that do not support the 8BITMIME extension. | |
| Binary | 3 | The binary content transfer encoding. This encoding is simply unencoded binary data. Typically not supported by standard message transport services such as SMTP. | |
| Base64 | 4 | The base64 content transfer encoding. This encoding is typically used for encoding binary data or textual content in a largely 8bit charset encoding and is supported by all message transport services. | |
| QuotedPrintable | 5 | The quoted-printable content transfer encoding. This encoding is used for textual content that is in a charset that has a minority of characters outside of the US-ASCII range (such as ISO-8859-1 and other single-byte charset encodings) and is supported by all message transport services. | |
| UUEncode | 6 | The uuencode content transfer encoding. This is an obsolete encoding meant for encoding binary data and has largely been superceeded by Base64. |
Remarks
Some older mail software is unable to properly deal with
data outside of the ASCII range, so it is sometimes
necessary to encode the content of MIME entities.
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