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Question

I'm testing a program that I'm writing in perl to send automated emails by sending them to myself first and I am noticing that all the carriage returns and tabs (\n and \t) that I am putting in the emails are turning up in outlook as spaces when I read the emails. Any idea what could be going on here?

Answer 1

There is a feature in Outlook to discard the extra lines. The alert is hard to see in the message. It should be above the From line when you double-click and open the message.

It should say something like "Extra line breaks in this message were removed -> Restore line breaks"

To prevent this problem, try formatting your lines with a carriage return and line feed (\r\n) instead.

Answer 2

For starters, I would advise avoiding tab (\t) characters in email messages; there's no standardization among email clients controlling how they're displayed.

Answer 3

"\n" is a unix end of line i think you need to use "\r\n" for windows