email formatting help needed.

[atomicmunky]

i have an online form where a viewer can send someone on a list an email w/out actually revealing their email. and i thought that i had been using the correct code to add line breaks and/or new lines by using /r and /n.

the problem i just realized was that outlook is displaying it correctly but outlook express isn't even recongnizing the /r and /n.

the part of the message that is being sent from the user filling out a form is being formatted correctly but the part that i added to the script to be sent along with the submitted text isn't being formatted at all. so all i'm getting is one long string of words with no breaks at all.

does anyone know how to fix this or can anyone point me to a tutorial or something?

thank you

[techie2003]

uh, what did you write the script yourself?

it's real simple in PHP using the mail function

But you have to realize that there's a difference between the escapes you posted and the "<br>" tag. You might what to post an example message and what the output looked like in outlook.

[atomicmunky]

ok, this is basically what i have :

// SELECT THE USER

$emailquery = mysql_query("SELECT Email FROM $table WHERE ID='$ID'") or die (mysql_error());

//only one row should be selected, or else something is wrong. 

    $row = mysql_fetch_array($emailquery); 

    $Email = $row["Email"]; 
    $headers = "From : \"$sender_name\" <$sender_email>\n";
    $subject = "$subject";
    $message = "this is where\rpart of the\rmessage is pre-entered\r**************************************************************\r$message";



//EMAIL THE USER THEIR MESSAGE

$mailsent = mail($Email, $subject, $message, $headers);
 
    
    if ($mailsent){
    echo "mail sent";
    }else{
    echo "mail is HAS NOT sent";
    }

//END OF EMAIL 

that looks like this in outlook which is fine:

this is where
part of the
message is pre-entered
**************************************************************
bla bla bla bla

but it looks like this in outlook express :

this is wherepart of themessage is pre-entered**************************************************************bla bla bla bla

but when i changed the script to this :

$message = "this is where
part of the
message is pre-entered
**************************************************************
$message

it looked fine if both.
is it possible to omit any \r and \n and still preserve the formatting of the email text across all email application or cross-platform?
i guess that's the main question.

thanks.