Adding line breaks to a text/plain email

Question

I'm having a problem sending a plain text (not HTML!) email, all my line breaks are being ignored:

->setBody('Did you request a password reset for your account?\r\n\r\nIf yes, click here:\r\nhttp://www.website.com', 'text/plain');

The above is being displayed in the email as:

Did you request a password reset for your account?\r\n\r\nIf yes, click here:\nhttp://www.website.com

I've checked and the header is apparently set correctly:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Does anyone have any experience with this?

@John That is not the right answer in this situation. – Chuck Le Butt Jun 01 '17 at 15:23 — Chuck Le Butt, Jun 01 '17 at 15:23

score 61 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 08 '12 at 14:23

61

use double quotes like this

->setBody("Did you request a password reset for your account?\r\n\r\nIf yes, click here:\r\nhttp://www.website.com", 'text/plain');

answered Mar 08 '12 at 14:23

silly

score 44 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 08 '12 at 14:23

44

You are using literal strings. If you would like to add the line breaks, use double quotes instead of a single quote.

->setBody("Did you request a password reset for your account?\r\n\r\nIf yes, click here:\r\nhttp://www.website.com", 'text/plain');

answered Mar 08 '12 at 14:23

jprofitt

1

Although @silly beat you by a few seconds, you do actually give a reason as to why it wasn't working. I should have marked yours correct to begin with. – Chuck Le Butt Jun 01 '17 at 15:25

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