Re: text email & new line

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:25:56 +0000, Richard Davey <rich@launchcode.co.uk> wrote: > Hello Jerry, > > JS> I'm sending text email. How I can make new line. > JS> "\n" seems to be not working. > > \n in a text (not HTML) email will do the trick most of the time, > sometimes I see \r\n, but \n works for me nicely. Are you sure it's > quoted properly? "" instead of ''? > The RFC 2822 for Internet Message Format states clearly that MUST be "\r\n" using only "\n" is not standard and you cannot expet all servers to accept it as a valid separator. Just want to take your attention to this paragraph from RFC 2822: "Messages are divided into lines of characters. A line is a series of characters that is delimited with the TWO characters carriage-return and line-feed; that is, the carriage-return (CR) character (ASCII value 13) followed inmediatly by the line-feed (LF) character (ASCII value 10)." Also take in consideration that a message line cannot have more that 998 characters (plus CRLF) ... The RFC 2821 says: "The apperance of "CR" or "LF" characters in text has long history of causing problems in mail implementations and applications that use the mail system as a tool. SMTP client implementattions MUST NOT transmit these characters except when they are intended as line terminators and then MUST transmit them only as <CRLF> sequence." I hope this will help in composing mail messages and my recommendation is to *follow the standard* and send messages always by using CRLF as a line delimiter. Only doing that way, you will ensure your messages are accepted by any server. More information: RFC 2822 - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html. RFC 2821 - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html. Best regards, Jordi.