I'm trying to send an email in Java but when I read the body of the email in Outlook, it's gotten rid of all my linebreaks. I'm putting \n at the ends of the lines but is there something special I need to do other than that? The receivers are always going to be using Outlook.
I found a page on microsoft.com that says there's a 'Remove line breaks' "feature" in Outlook so does this mean there's no solution to get around that other than un-checking that setting?
Thanks
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\r\n will not work until you set body type as text.
message.setBody(MessageBody.getMessageBodyFromText(msg));
BodyType type = BodyType.Text;
message.getBody().setBodyType(type);
You can force a line break in outlook when attaching one (or two?) tab characters (\t) just before the line break (CRLF).
Example:
This is my heading in the mail\t\n
Just here Outlook is forced to begin a new line.
It seems to work on Outlook 2010. Please test if this works on other versions.
See also Outlook autocleaning my line breaks and screwing up my email format
The \n
largely works for us, but Outlook does sometimes take it upon itself to remove the line breaks as you say.
For Outlook 2010 and later versions, use \t\n rather than using \r\n.
I've just been fighting with this today. Let's call the behavior of removing the extra line breaks "continuation." A little experimenting finds the following behavior:
Please note that I tried all of this with Outlook 2007. YMMV.
So if possible, end all bullet items with a sentence-terminating punctuation mark, a tab, or even three spaces.
Because it is a query, only percent escaped characters work, means %0A gives you a line break. For example,
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?Subject=TEST&amp;body=Hi there,%0A%0AHow are you?%0A%0AThanks">email to me</a>
You need to send HTML emails. With <br />
s in the email, you will always have your line breaks.
RESOLVED IN MY APPLICATION
In my application, I was trying to send an email whose message body was typed by the user in text area. When mail was send, outlook automatically removed line break entered by user.
e.g if user entered
Yadav
Mahesh
outlook displayed it as
YadavMahesh
Resolution: I changed the line break character "\r\n" with "\par " ( remember to hit space at the end of RTF code "\par" )and line breaks are restrored.
Cheers,
Mahesh
Adding "\t\r\n" ( \t for TAB) instead of "\r\n" worked for me on Outlook 2010 . Note : adding 3 spaces at end of each line also do same thing but that looks like a programming hack!
Sometimes you have to enter \r\n twice to force outlook to do the break.
This will add one empty line but all the lines will have break.
I also had this issue with plain/text mail type. Earlier, I used "\n\n" but there was two line breaks. Then, I used "\t\n" and it worked. I was using StringBuffer
in java to append content.
The content got printed in next line in Outlook 2010 mail.
The trick is to use the encodeURIComponent()
functionality from js:
var formattedBody = "FirstLine \n Second Line \n Third Line";
var mailToLink = "mailto:[email protected]?body=" + encodeURIComponent(formattedBody);
RESULT:
FirstLine
SecondLine
ThirdLine
I was facing the same issue and here is the code that resolved it:
\t\n - for new line in Email service JavaMailSender
String mailMessage = JSONObject.toJSONString("Your message").replace(",", "\t\n").trim();
If you can add in a '.' (dot) character at the end of each line, this seems to prevent Outlook ruining text formatting.
I had the same issue, and found a solution. Try this: %0D%0A
to add a line break.
I also had this issue with plain/text mail type.Form Feed \f
worked for me.
Put the text in <pre>
Tags and outlook will format and display the text correctly.
i defined it in CSS inline in HTML Body like:
CSS:
pre {
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
}
i defined the font-family to have to font set.
HTML:
<td width="70%"><pre>Entry Date/Time: 2013-09-19 17:06:25
Entered By: Chris
worklog mania
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Entry Date/Time: 2013-09-19 17:05:42
Entered By: Chris
this is a new Worklog Entry</pre></td>
Microsoft Outlook 2002 and above removes "extra line breaks" from text messages by default (kb308319). That is, Outlook seems to simply ignore line feed and/or carriage return sequences in text messages, running all of the lines together.
This can cause problems if you're trying to write code that will automatically generate an email message to be read by someone using Outlook.
For example, suppose you want to supply separate pieces of information each on separate lines for clarity, like this:
Transaction needs attention!
PostedDate: 1/30/2009
Amount: $12,222.06
TransID: 8gk288g229g2kg89
PostalCode: 91543
Your Outlook recipient will see the information all smashed together, as follows:
Transaction needs attention! PostedDate: 1/30/2009 Amount: $12,222.06 TransID: 8gk288g229g2kg89 ZipCode: 91543
There doesn't seem to be an easy solution. Alternatives are:
I had been struggling with all of the above solutions and nothing helped here, because I used a String variable (plain text from a JTextPane) in combination with "text/html" formatting in my e-mail library.
So, the solution to this problem is to use "text/plain", instead of "text/html" and no need to replace return characters at all:
MimeBodyPart messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
messageBodyPart.setContent(message, "text/plain");
Try this:
message.setContent(new String(body.getBytes(), "iso-8859-1"),
"text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"");
Regards, Mohammad Rasool Javeed
I have used html line break instead of "\n" . It worked fine.
Microsoft Outlook 2002 and above removes "extra line breaks" from text messages by default (kb308319). That is, Outlook seems to simply ignore line feed and/or carriage return sequences in text messages, running all of the lines together.
This can cause problems if you're trying to write code that will automatically generate an email message to be read by someone using Outlook.
For example, suppose you want to supply separate pieces of information each on separate lines for clarity, like this:
Transaction needs attention!
PostedDate: 1/30/2009
Amount: $12,222.06
TransID: 8gk288g229g2kg89
PostalCode: 91543
Your Outlook recipient will see the information all smashed together, as follows:
Transaction needs attention! PostedDate: 1/30/2009 Amount: $12,222.06 TransID: 8gk288g229g2kg89 ZipCode: 91543
There doesn't seem to be an easy solution. Alternatives are:
Try \r\c
instead of \n
.
EDIT: I think @Robert Wilkinson had it right. \r\n
. Memory just isn't what it used to be.
if the message is text/plain using, \r\n should work;
if the message type is text\html, use < p/>
I have a good solution that I tried it, it is just add the Char(13) at end of line like the following example:
Dim S As String
S = "Some Text" & Chr(13)
S = S + "Some Text" & Chr(13)
Not sure if it was mentioned above but Outlook has a checkbox setting called "Remove extra line breaks in plain text messages" and is checked by default. It is located in a different spot for different versions of Outlook but for 2010 go to the "File" tab. Select "Options => Mail" Scroll down to "Message format" Uncheck the checkbox.
if work need to be done with formatted text with out html encoding.
it can be easy achieved with following scenario that creates div element on the fly and using <pre></pre>
html element to keep formatting.
var email_body = htmlEncode($("#Body").val());
function htmlEncode(value) {
return "<pre>" + $('<div/>').text(value).html() + "</pre>";
}
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