email has no line breaks!

[scamo]

Hello,

I have a problem with the emails sent with mail().

They all arrive to the users without linebreaks. I've tried \n but that doesn't work. What is the problem. Server setup?

Scott

[timnz]

Not sure if this would be a problem, or if it would apply when sending emails, but is your message in double quotes or single quotes?

eg:
$message = "blah \n";
or
$message = 'blah \n';

[scamo]

The text is pulled out of a db with a function but as far as I can tell the $message variable is surrounded in double quotes.

Scott

[scamo]

Have you noticed that this forum also has no linebreaks in the emails sent from it?

Only the excerpt has linebreaks. Here is what I recieved:

Hello scamo,  timnz has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - email has no line breaks! - in the PHP and MySQL forum of SitePoint Community Forums.  Excerpt: Not sure if this would be a problem, or if it would apply when sending emails, but is your message in double quotes or single quotes?

eg:
$message = "blah \n";
or
$message = 'blah \n';  This thread is located at: http://sitepointforums.com/showthrea...4&goto=newpost  There may be other replies also, but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the board again.  Yours, SitePoint Community Forums team   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unsubscription information:  To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit this page: http://sitepointforums.com/member2.p...threadid=31694  To unsubscribe from ALL threads, please visit this page: http://sitepointforums.com/member2.p...type=allthread

See what I mean?

Scott

[freddydoesphp]

Trya \r\n where you want the line breaks.

[TWTCommish]

Um, the emails from this forum have always worked perfectly for me...maybe something's wrong with your email client. They've always had line breaks for me.

[petesmc]

You must do:

$text = str_replace("\n", "\r\n", $text);

[timnz]

Do you really have to do that? Because the emails I have sent myself through one of my email scripts, worked perfectly when I had like:
$str = "Hello\nThis is on a newline";

[scamo]

I think we have come closer to an answer. My colleague found out something. You can determine the content-type in the header of your email when using the mail() function. Something like this:

$message = "The following email includes a formatted ASCII table\n";
$message .= "Day \t\tMonth \t\tYear\n";
$message .= "3rd \t\tAug \t\t1970\n";
$message .= "17rd\t\tAug \t\t1973\n";
$headers = "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
mail("$address","Teste mail() Funktion",$message,$headers);

Of course for non-html emails the line '$headers = "Content-Type: text/html; blah blah', should have text/plain written in it.

We'll see if that'll do the trick!

Thanx everyone for your input.

Scott