New lines r n are not working in email body

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I am using PHP mail   function        to         AAAA  lt postmaster xxx xx gt         subject    BBBB        message    CCCC r nCCCC CCCC  r CCC  n CCC  r n CCC  n r CCCC        headers    From  DDD lt postmaster xxx xx gt       r n        headers     Content-Type  text html  charset   UTF-8    format flowed  r n        headers     Mime-Version  1 0  r n         headers     Content-Transfer-Encoding  quoted-printable  r n       mail  to   subject   message   headers     When I receive this email it looks like this   CCCC CCCC CCCC CCC CCC CCC CCCC   I would expect something like this   CCCC CCCC CCCC CCC  CCC  CCC  CCCC    It works fine without Content-Type HTTP header  How can I make new lines and still use my  Content-Type  declaration

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You need to use  lt br gt  instead of  r n   For this you can use built in function call nl2br So your code should be like this    message   nl2br  CCCC r nCCCC CCCC  r CCC  n CCC  r n CCC  n r CCCC

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If you are sending HTML email then use  lt BR   or  lt BR     or  lt  BR   as stated  If you are sending a plain text email then use  0D 0A  r    0D   Ctrl M   carriage return   n    0A   Ctrl A   line feed   If you have an email link in your email  EG    lt A HREF  mailto To     amp Body Line 1 250D 250ALine 2  gt Send email lt  A gt    Then use  250D 250A   25

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OP s problem was related with HTML coding  But if you are using plain text  please use   n  and not   r n    My personal use case  using mailx mailer  simply replacing   r n  into   n  fixed my issue  related with wrong automatic Content-Type setting   Wrong header   User-Agent  Heirloom mailx 12 4 7 29 08 MIME-Version  1 0 Content-Type  application octet-stream Content-Transfer-Encoding  base64   Correct header   User-Agent  Heirloom mailx 12 4 7 29 08 MIME-Version  1 0 Content-Type  text plain  charset us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding  7bit   I m not saying that  application octet-stream  and  base64  are always wrong unwanted  but they where in my case

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You can add new line character in text plain content type  using  0A character code   For example     lt a href  mailto someone example com subject Hello 20again amp body HI 20 0AThis 20is 20a 20new 20line   gt    Here is the jsfiddle

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Using   lt BR gt  is not allways enough  MS Outlook 2007 will ignore this if you dont tell outlook that it is a selfclosing html tag by using    lt BR   gt

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space was missing in my case  when a blank space added    r n  started to work

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This worked for me    message    nl2br                                   r n www domain com  r n                                 r n From     from   r n To     to   r n Subject     subject   r n Message      POST  form-message

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for text plain text mail in a mail function definitely use PHP EOL constant  you can combine it with  too for text html text     messagePLAINTEXT  This is my message     PHP EOL    This is a new line in plain text     messageHTML  This is my message     PHP EOL     lt br  gt      This is a new line in html text  check line break in code view     messageHTML  This is my message       lt br  gt      This is a new line in html text  no line break in code view

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If you use content-type  text html you need to put a  lt br gt  because your message will be threated like an html file   But if you change your content-type to text plain instead of text html you will be able to use  r n characters

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You need to use a  lt br gt  because your Content-Type is text html   It works without the Content-Type header because then your e-mail will be interpreted as plain text  If you really want to use  n you should use Content-Type  text plain but then you ll lose any markup   Also check out similar question here

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mail   new PHPMailer   mail- gt isSMTP      mail- gt isHTML true    Insert this code after working all html tag like  lt br gt   lt p gt  in  mail- gt Body  Hello lt br gt  how are you   lt b gt

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Another thing use     there is a difference between   r n  and   r n

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n r  produces 2 new lines while   n    r   amp    r n  produce single lines if  in the Header  you use content-type  text plain   Beware  If you do the Following php code        message  ab lt br gt cd lt br gt e lt br gt f   print  message   lt br gt  lt br gt         message str replace   lt br gt     r n   message   print  message    you get the following in the Windows browser   ab cd e f  ab cd e f   and with content-type  text plain you get the following in an email output   ab cd e f

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