How to create a multi line body in C System Net Mail MailMessage

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If create the body property as   System Net Mail MailMessage message   new System Net Mail MailMessage     message Body   First Line  n second line     I also tried  message Body   First Line    system environment    second line     Both of these were ignored when I received the message  using outlook    Any ideas on how to get mutliple lines  I am trying to avoid html encoding so that the email will play nicer with spam filters    thanks

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In case you dont need the message body in html, turn it off:

message.IsBodyHtml = false;

then use e.g:

message.Body = "First line" + Environment.NewLine + 
               "Second line";

but if you need to have it in html for some reason, use the html-tag:

message.Body = "First line <br /> Second line";

User · Answer

Try using  a StringBuilder object and use the appendline method  That might work

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Beginning each new line with two white spaces will avoid the auto-remove perpetrated by Outlook   var lineString      line 1 r n   linestring       line 2     Will correctly display   line 1 line 2   It s a little clumsy feeling to use  but it does the job without a lot of extra effort being spent on it

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Today I found the same issue on a Error reporting app  I don t want to resort to HTML  to allow outlook to display the messages I had to do  assuming StringBuilder sb    sb Append     r n r n   Append  Exception Time     DateTime UtcNow ToString

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I realise this may have been answered before  However  i had this issue this morning with Environment Newline not being preserved in the email body   The following is a full  Now Working with Environment NewLine being preserved  method i use for sending an email through my program  The Modules MessageUpdate portion can be skipped as this just writes to a log file i have   This is located on the main page of my WinForms program       private void MasterMail string MailContents                Modules MessageUpdate this  ObjApp  EH  3  25              0  0  0  0   Master Email - MasterMail Called     N   MainTxtDict  MessageResourcesTxtDict            Outlook Application OApp   new Outlook Application              Location of email template to use  Outlook wont include my Signature through this automation so template contains only that          string Temp   Environment GetFolderPath Environment SpecialFolder Desktop    ResourceDetails DictionaryResources  SigTempEmail   MainTxtDict            Outlook Folder folder   OApp Session GetDefaultFolder Outlook OlDefaultFolders olFolderDrafts  as Outlook Folder             create the email object          Outlook MailItem TestEmail   OApp CreateItemFromTemplate Temp  folder  as Outlook MailItem             Set subject line          TestEmail Subject    Automation Results              Create Recipients object          Outlook Recipients oRecips    Outlook Recipients TestEmail Recipients             Set and check email addresses to send to          Outlook Recipient oRecip    Outlook Recipient oRecips Add  EmailAddressToSendTo            oRecip Resolve               Set the body of the email    HTMLBody for HTML Emails   Body will preserve  Environment NewLine           TestEmail Body   MailContents   TestEmail Body          try                         If outlook is not open  Open it              Process   pName   Process GetProcessesByName  OUTLOOK EXE                if  pName Length    0                                System Diagnostics Process Start   C  Program Files Microsoft Office root Office16 OUTLOOK EXE                                 Send email             TestEmail Send                   Update logfile - Success              Modules MessageUpdate this  ObjApp  EH  1  17              0  0  0  0   Master Email sent     Y   MainTxtDict  MessageResourcesTxtDict                     catch  Exception E                          Update LogFile - Fail              Modules MessageUpdate this  ObjApp  EH  5  4              0  0  0  0   Master Email - Error Occurred  System says      E Message   Y   MainTxtDict  MessageResourcesTxtDict                     finally                       if  OApp    null                                OApp   null                            if  folder    null                                folder   null                            if  TestEmail    null                                TestEmail   null                            GC Collect                GC WaitForPendingFinalizers                      You can add multiple recipients by either including a      between email addresses manually  or in one of my other methods i populate from a Txt file into a dictionary and use that to create the recipients email addresses using the following snippet           foreach  KeyValuePair lt string  string gt  kvp in EmailDict                        Outlook Recipient oRecip    Outlook Recipient oRecips Add kvp Value               RecipientList    string Format   0      kvp Value               oRecip Resolve                I hope at least some of this helps someone

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Adding   before  r n makes it work if the original string before  r n has no    Other characters may work  I didn t try   With or without the three lines including IsBodyHtml  not a matter

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As per the comment by drris  if IsBodyHtml is set to true then a standard newline could potentially be ignored by design  I know you mention avoiding HTML but try using  lt br   gt  instead  even if just to see if this  solves  the problem - then you can rule out by what you know   var message   new System Net Mail MailMessage    message Body    First Line  lt br   gt  second line     You may also just try setting IsBodyHtml to false and determining if newlines work in that instance  although  unless you set it to true explicitly I m pretty sure it defaults to false anyway   Also as a side note  avoiding HTML in emails is not necessarily any aid in getting the message through spam filters  AFAIK - if anything  the most you do by this is ensure cross-mail-client compatibility in terms of layout  To  play nice  with spam filters  a number of other things ought to be taken into account  even so much as the subject and content of the mail  who the mail is sent from and where and do they match et cetera  An email simply won t be discriminated against because it is marked up with HTML

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Something that worked for me was simply separating data with a    message Body   FirstLine         SecondLine   I hope this helps

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I usually like a StringBuilder when I m working with MailMessage   Adding new lines is easy  via the AppendLine method   and you can simply set the Message s Body equal to StringBuilder ToString        for the instance of StringBuilder    StringBuilder result   new StringBuilder  my content here       result AppendLine       break line

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The key to this is when you said      using Outlook    I have had the same problem with perfectly formatted text body e-mails   It s Outlook that make trash out of it   Occasionally it is kind enough to tell you that  extra line breaks were removed    Usually it just does what it wants and makes you look stupid   So I put in a terse body and put my nice formatted text in an attachement   You can either do that or format the body in HTML

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You need to enable IsBodyHTML  message IsBodyHtml   true    This will enable using HTML elements in email body message Body   First Line  lt br   gt  second line

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Try using the verbatim operator     before your message   message Body       FirstLine SecondLine     Consider that also the distance of the text from the left margin affects on the real distance from the email body left margin

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Try this  IsBodyHtml   false  BodyEncoding   Encoding UTF8  BodyTransferEncoding   System Net Mime TransferEncoding EightBit   If you wish to stick to using  r n  I managed to get mine working after trying for one whole day

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Sometimes you don t want to create a html e-mail  I solved the problem this way   Replace  n by  t n The tab will not be shown  but the newline will work

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