New line in email

[Shelly]

I am trying to send an email using mailto. This will be a text email, but I
want to have the body formatted with line breaks. When I send it using
either \n or \r\n the text runs together and I don't get separate lines.
Any hints?

Shelly

 

[J.O. Aho]

I am trying to send an email using mailto. This will be a text email, but I
want to have the body formatted with line breaks. When I send it using
either \n or \r\n the text runs together and I don't get separate lines.
Any hints?

Use a better mail client when you read the mail, I would suggest pine.

 

[Jim Moe]

I am trying to send an email using mailto. This will be a text email, but I
want to have the body formatted with line breaks. When I send it using
either \n or \r\n the text runs together and I don't get separate lines.

How are you sending the email?
Is it truly a text-only email? Or is it a multipart MIME message with a
plain text and HTML text alternative?
What is your receiving email client?

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

I am trying to send an email using mailto. This will be a text email, but I
want to have the body formatted with line breaks. When I send it using
either \n or \r\n the text runs together and I don't get separate lines.
Any hints?

Using mailto protocol in form's action is just a *bad idea* see

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=using+mailto+form+action+bad&btnG=Search
using mailto form action bad - Google Search

for a litany of reasons. Send to a server-side script for processing and
then process data exactly to your specifications.

 

[Shelly]

How are you sending the email?
Is it truly a text-only email? Or is it a multipart MIME message with a
plain text and HTML text alternative?
What is your receiving email client?

I am actually sending the email via php using the mail() function. I
assumed it was the same effect that was causing the problem and wanted to
simplify the question so that I wouldn't get "go to a php group (I did that
too)". I was just looking for the right escape code to create a new line.
Yes, you are correct. I use a function that I drew from the web to handle
an attachment which has in it the mail() function -- and it IS a MIME
message with a plain text body.

As for your other comment, I am quite happy using Outlook Express as my mail
reader, but the question is in the sending from the website to anyone
else --- not what I use personally.

Shelly

 

[George Orwell]

Everybody has their favourite e-mail client. An all HTML one is
mailvault.com. You can access the site from behind a web proxy, it
encrypts e-mail and you can use a digital signature. Pine is no good
for Vista.



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di un sistema anonimizzatore |anonymous system
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[nice.guy.nige]

While the city slept, George Orwell ([email protected]) feverishly
typed...

[snips]

1. Quote relevant parts of the text you are replying to (this is not ironic,
I have snipped your text because I am not replying to anything in
particular)

2. Use a valid signature separator (1 line of text that has 2 hyphens
followed by a space. Nothing more, nothing less). This allows various
software to recognise the signature part of your message and strip it from
replies.

3. A 6 line signature is approx 2 more than the standard accepted maximum.

Cheers,
Nige

 

[Blinky the Shark]

While the city slept, George Orwell ([email protected]) feverishly
typed...

[snips]

1. Quote relevant parts of the text you are replying to (this is not ironic,
I have snipped your text because I am not replying to anything in
particular)

2. Use a valid signature separator (1 line of text that has 2 hyphens
followed by a space. Nothing more, nothing less). This allows various
software to recognise the signature part of your message and strip it from
replies.

3. A 6 line signature is approx 2 more than the standard accepted maximum.

He's using some kind of gateway. That's no excuse; I'm just making an
observation.

 

[Shelly]

While the city slept, George Orwell ([email protected]) feverishly
typed...

[snips]

1. Quote relevant parts of the text you are replying to (this is not
ironic,
I have snipped your text because I am not replying to anything in
particular)

2. Use a valid signature separator (1 line of text that has 2 hyphens
followed by a space. Nothing more, nothing less). This allows various
software to recognise the signature part of your message and strip it from
replies.

3. A 6 line signature is approx 2 more than the standard accepted maximum.

Cheers,
Nige

What are you talking about? I have no signiture on my post other than my
name "Shelly"/

Shelly

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

What are you talking about? I have no signiture on my post other than my
name "Shelly"/

Shelly

Ah, that's a signature even if it is just one line, one word or one
character. If you preface it with a line constructed as 2 hyphens a
space followed by a carriage return most newsreaders will automatically
strip it off and anything that follows when quoting. Someone here has a
link how to fix your MS OE to follow Usenet convention

 

[rf]

While the city slept, George Orwell ([email protected]) feverishly
typed...

[snips]

1. Quote relevant parts of the text you are replying to (this is not
ironic,

What are you talking about? I have no signiture on my post other than my
name "Shelly"/

Look at the attributions above. The comments were directed at Mr Orwell.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

While the city slept, George Orwell ([email protected]) feverishly
typed...

[snips]

1. Quote relevant parts of the text you are replying to (this is not
ironic,
I have snipped your text because I am not replying to anything in
particular)

2. Use a valid signature separator (1 line of text that has 2 hyphens
followed by a space. Nothing more, nothing less). This allows various
software to recognise the signature part of your message and strip it from
replies.

3. A 6 line signature is approx 2 more than the standard accepted maximum.

Cheers,
Nige

What are you talking about? I have no signiture on my post other than my
name "Shelly"/

His response was not to one of your posts. D'oh!

But why did you quote *his* *valid* sig? Your software should auto snip
it.

Shelly

But that does happen to be a sig that is not properly delimited, so you
still score 1 out of 3 on nige's fix-it list.

 

[Shelly]

Ah, that's a signature even if it is just one line, one word or one
character. If you preface it with a line constructed as 2 hyphens a space
followed by a carriage return most newsreaders will automatically strip it
off and anything that follows when quoting. Someone here has a link how to
fix your MS OE to follow Usenet convention

No, it is not. The "Shelly" is part of the text I type. I have no
signature appended. Nothing. Nada. Notince that this message has no
"Shelly" typed in at the end. It should just be these few sentences.

 

[Shelly]

His response was not to one of your posts. D'oh!

But why did you quote *his* *valid* sig? Your software should auto snip
it.


But that does happen to be a sig that is not properly delimited, so you
still score 1 out of 3 on nige's fix-it list.

As I explained in another response, the "Shelly" is typed by me each time.

Now, does anyone have an answer to the newline question?

 

[Neredbojias]

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:31:43
GMT Shelly scribed:

I am trying to send an email using mailto. This will be a text email,
but I want to have the body formatted with line breaks. When I send
it using either \n or \r\n the text runs together and I don't get
separate lines. Any hints?

As a wild guess, your reader is not recognizing the sequence or you have to
escape the slash (-like \\r\\n) to pass it thru "plain" in order to get it
intact to the reader.

 

[rf]

As I explained in another response, the "Shelly" is typed by me each time.

Doesn't matter if you type it in or not, it's still a sig.

Now, does anyone have an answer to the newline question?

If it's HTML then a new line is simply whitespace. Nothing more. Just like
in a web page.

What you probably want is <br>, or even <p>...</p>.

[Manually typed in sig follows:]

 

[Blinky the Shark]

As I explained in another response, the "Shelly" is typed by me each time.

Now, does anyone have an answer to the newline question?

So you do your sig the hard way. It's still a sig.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

No, it is not. The "Shelly" is part of the text I type. I have no
signature appended. Nothing. Nada. Notince that this message has no
"Shelly" typed in at the end. It should just be these few sentences.

It's your signature, entered manually or inserted by your software.

 

[rf]

If it's HTML then a new line is simply whitespace. Nothing more. Just like
in a web page.

Belay that. Where on earth did I get the idea this was an HTML email? Mixing
up threads methinks :-(

Another thought:

Send yourself one. Then look at the raw source of the email, as in
properties->details->message source or something.

 

[Anonymous]

Begging my ignorance Mr Shark, what does "RLU 297263" mean?
A way to just pick you posts out of Usenet?