Formatting a plain text email...

[chops]

I am having troubles getting line breaks (\n) into a plain text email...I tried carrige returns (\r) and couldn't get them to work either. When I get the email as plain text in Outlook I get everything lumped on one line. Below is the code:
<PRE>
$email_body = "some text\n more text\n even more text\n"

$recipient .= "$to_name <$to_email>" ; / recipients /
$subject = "subject"; / subject /
$message .= "$email_body"; / message /
$headers .= "From: $from_name <$from_email>\n";
$headers .= "X-Sender: <$from_email>\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: <$from_email>\n";

$headers .= "bcc: $from_name <$from_email>\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain\n";

mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers); / mail it /
</PRE>

[kparker]

Use \r\n.

[Anon]

I found when using mail() that the usual escaped chars like \n had no effect... instead, try writing the message exactly as you would like it laid out..e.g.

$email_body = "some text
more text
even more text";

it gets a bit messy, but it works...

[chops]

tried that and it still didn't work....im at a brick wall here as to why this wouldn't work....

[chops]

do you mean use that in that order? \r\n to get a new line?....if that's the case then why wouldn't they work individually?

[kparker]

Because CR + LF by definition is the line-ending sequence for DOS and Windows, and also for many internet protocols (Telnet--also used by the FTP control channel--and HTTP at the very least.) Thus my reccomendation to at least give it a try.

[khaine]

You could drop the line Content-type. It has caused some problems for me in the past. let the email client decide the type.

Mark.