Re: text email & new line

It is working without \r\n. Just using regular spaces/new lines in the text message. On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:34:00 +0100, Jordi Canals <jcanals@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >