Email text message line breaks not working

Im sending an email after a form is submitted, but not all the line breaks are occuring where they are supposed to, only some of them.

string newline = System.Environment.NewLine;
string body = newline + "******NOTE*******" + newline + "A form has been submitted from the customer website\n" + newline + "PLEASE USE THE CONTACT INFORMATION BELOW to reply to this user" +newline+ "Do not reply directly to this email\r\nDetails Follow:" +newline+newline+ msg.ToString();

The text starting with "PLEASE USE THE CONTACT INFORMATION", does not break to the next line. If I put in two newline caracters "\n\n" it will break but skip a line like its suppose to. I want it to skip to the very next line.

What gives ?

Re: Email text message line breaks not working

Are you perchance using outlook to view your message? Sometimes outlook will remove extra line breaks. I think usually at the top of the message there is a "Restore extra line breaks bar" you can click to restore all line breaks.

Re: Email text message line breaks not working

Yep. thats it, I just noticed this a few minutes ago. At the top of the email message, outlook displayed a message "extra linebreaks in this message were removed"

[:@]

Might be better to use html formatted email...

Re: Email text message line breaks not working

Try including an empty space character at the end of each line. Certainlty seems to work for me.

Re: Email text message line breaks not working

dotnetbohn

Are you perchance using outlook to view your message? Sometimes outlook will remove extra line breaks. I think usually at the top of the message there is a "Restore extra line breaks bar" you can click to restore all line breaks.

Interesting. Nice of outlook to do this for us (Not). I couldn't find a restore extra line breaks bar in outlook 2010, but I found the instructions which are:

1.Open Outlook.
2.On the File tab, click Options.
3.In the Options dialog, click Mail.
4.In the Message format section, clear the Remove extra line breaks in plain text messages check box.
5.Click OK.