How to set encoder(8bit,base64 or quoted-printable) in symfony mailer

[adnan-rasheed]

[xabbuh]

Can you please elaborate a bit more what piece of information you are missing?

[adnan-rasheed]

@xabbuh there is an option in php mailer for setting content transfer encoding to one of these methods 8bit,base64, 7bit & quoted-printable. Also there is way to set encoding method in swiftmailer but in symfony I did not see any documentation to set one of the value from above methods

[xabbuh]

I think we need an easy way to configure that in the code itself first (see symfony/symfony#44557).

[fritzmg]

In SwiftMailer 5.x we had setEncoder + get8BitEncoding etc. so you could do

$message->setEncoder(\Swift_Encoding::get8BitEncoding());

However, this was removed in 6.x: https://github.com/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/commit/d210d674809310dac02da09b372bf74a8047c2ab

[mpichot]

I'm wondering why this was removed? :thinking: I can't find a good solution to encode emails other than quoted-printable. Anyone?

[javiereguiluz]

I'm closing this one because the related code issue was closed after "expiring" (https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/44557).

Please, try to ask about this in the GitHub Discussions or Slack chat shown in https://symfony.com/support If there's enough interest, the next step would be to create an issue in the code repository and try to gather some support for it. Finally, there could be a PR in the code repository and then we would document it here.

Thanks for understanding.

[fritzmg]

No need to create a new issue. The last comment in the original issue states:

Feel free to comment if this is still relevant, I can always reopen!