Gmail API method removes Content-Transfer-Encoding

  • GermanKiwi

    (@germankiwi)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi, I just noticed the following strange behaviour:

    If I set your plugin to use SMTP as the transport type, configured to route through Gmail’s server, then a plain-text email generated by one of my other plugins will have these standard fields in the header:

    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline

    But if I change your plugin to use Gmail API as the transport type, then the exact same plain-text email generated by the other plugin, will only have this field in the header, and not the other two:

    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

    As a result, the text in the 2nd email (using Gmail API) is wrapped in my mail client – ie. the text doesn’t go more than about 70 or so characters wide before a line break.

    However, the text in the 1st email (using SMTP) is not wrapped at all, and extends the full width of the screen in my email program, as it should.

    Do you know if your plugin is doing this, or if the Gmail API is to blame?

    Cheers!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/postman-smtp/

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  • Plugin Author Jason Hendriks

    (@jasonhendriks)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi. I’ve noticed this myself. AFAIK, it’s the Gmail API strips the quoted-printable. I always meant to dig into the API and see if there was a way to prevent that.

    Thread Starter GermanKiwi

    (@germankiwi)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Okay good to know. Certainly strange though! I’d have thought the API would just pass the email right on through without modifying any part of it. Well, if you are able to find a way around it, please let me know! I’ll have to switch to the SMTP method in the meantime, as I don’t want to have forced line-wraps in my emails.

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