System.Net.Mail UUEncode

[Guest]

I am writing a client app that communicates with a legacy system via email.
The legacy system uses very primative mail messaging and thus doesn't support
MIME or Base64 Encoded attachments.

Since System.Web.Mail is supposed to be deprecated my client is using
System.Net.Mail. I cannot for the life of me find a way to create a mail
message without any MIME headers but most of all there is no way to select
UUEncoding for Attachment Encoding.

I realize that a real plain jane message doesn't support international
character sets and all that. However every mail client I've EVER worked with
allowed you to turn off mime encoding and use UUEncoded attachments.

It also seems like if a namespace is being depricated in preference for a
new namespace that it should not LOOSE features and backward compatiblity.

Am I missing something. Is this missing from System.Net.Mail. If not
someone please help me out! =)

Thanks in advance

 

[Guest]

Its fine to loose backwards compatability when deprecating a namespaces as
the old namespace can still be used if somebody NEEDs to but it prompts most
people to move to a better way of doing it.

If you still have to use the System.Web.Mail then you should.

Ciaran O'Donnell