MailMessage sent string as body without newline in outlook

Question

HI, I am trying to send a simple notification using system.net.mail.mailmessage. I just pass the string as the message body. But problem is even though multi-line message been send have the correct "\r\n" format info in string. The mail opened in outlook will displayed as a long single line. But view source in outlook will display the message with correct new line format.

For example: original message would looks like:

line1
line 2
line 3

But it will displayed in Outlook like:

line1 line 2 line 3

View source from outlook will still display

line1
line 2
line 3

What should I do to make outlook display the message with correct newline information?

Answer 1

Outlook sometimes removes newlines (it usually pops up a comment that it has done it as well), not sure exactly about the rules for when it does this but I'm fairly sure if you add a . (full stop) at the end of each line it won't remove them.

Actually, looking at this article it seems like you can also solve it by sending the emails as HTML or RTF: Line breaks are removed in posts made in plain text format in Outlook

Answer 2

Set the IsBodyHTML to false:

ms.IsBodyHtml = false;

By default it is false but it appears you have set it to true somewhere as outlook thinks it is HTML.