Java Mail API - Encoding problems

Question

I\'m using Java Mail API and I\'m trying to send an email through Gmail\'s SMTP. How my program works: java.util.Scanner class is used to get user input - I\'m asking user f

Answer 1

The following worked for me:

MimeMessage message = ...
message.setSubject(subject, "UTF-8");
message.setContent(body, "text/plain; charset=UTF-8");

Where subject and body are regular String objects with no special treatment (code and user interface use UTF-8).