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Dugan
Dugan

Reputation: 918

.Net MailAddress fails on "ñ" in email address

The following code throws an exception of "An invalid character was found in the mail header: 'ñ'.": 

string email = "ñ@c.com";
MailAddress to = new MailAddress(email);

The actual address I'm running into this is a valid address, but the MailAddress class throws an error whenever I try and use it.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 2488

Answers (1)

Noon Silk
Noon Silk

Reputation: 55152

Yeah, interesting. According to Wikipedia: Email Address, it's strictly defined as being a subset of ASCII, so that is technically invalid.

So, it seems you just strictly can't send email to that address from .NET (using the System.Net.Mail classes, anyway).

Upvotes: 6

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