Message to be sent by the programmable controller
Subject
Attachment
Binary format
Binary to ASCII conversion
Binary to CSV conversion
Message body
Specified with ASCII or Unicode
data
■Ethernet module data conversion method
The following shows how data is converted by the Ethernet module.
An e-mail created by a user with a ladder program using a module function block is sent to the mail server after the following
conversion processing is performed by the Ethernet module.
• Subject: UTF-16 to UTF-8 (No conversion for ASCII)
• Message body: UTF-16 to UTF-8 (No conversion for ASCII)
• Attachment: Binary to binary, ASCII, or CSV
Module FB
Sending an e-mail
Creating a message
in ASCII/Unicode
(UTF-16)
Specifying an
attachment
Remarks
ASCII: Maximum 128 characters
Unicode: Maximum 64 characters
Maximum 32768 bytes
ASCII: Maximum 1024 characters
Unicode: Maximum 512 characters (or 513 characters when including a NULL character
that is added to the end of the message body)
Divided send
Subject
ASCII/Unicode (UTF-16) data
Conversion
Text
ASCII/Unicode (UTF-16) data
Attachment
(Binary file)
Batch send
Ethernet
module
Subject
ASCII/Unicode (UTF-8) data
Text
ASCII/Unicode (UTF-8) data
Attachment
(Binary file/ASCII/CSV)
E-mail server
Reception
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