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Content - Amazon Simple Email Service

Content

Represents textual data, plus an optional character set specification.

By default, the text must be 7-bit ASCII, due to the constraints of the SMTP protocol. If the text must contain any other characters, then you must also specify a character set. Examples include UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, and Shift_JIS.

Contents

Data

The textual data of the content.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Charset

The character set of the content.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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