Plain text email next line doesn't work even with "\r\n"

Question

Here is my code in php mail:

<?php
include_once("Mail.php");

$From = $_POST['enquiryemail'];
$To = $row2['email'];
$Subject = "An enquiry";
$Message = "This enquiry is created by: ".$_POST['enquiryname']."\r\nOrganization: ".$row['orgname']."\r\n Telephone Number: ".$_POST['telenum']."\r\nE-mail address: ".$_POST['enquiryemail']."\r\nMessage: ".$_POST['detail'];
address: ".$_POST['enquiryemail']."\r\nMessage: ".$_POST['detail'];
$Host = "smtp.test.com";
$Username = "";
$Password = "";

$Headers = array ('From' => $From, 'To' => $To, 'Subject' => $Subject);
$SMTP = Mail::factory('smtp', array ('host' => $Host, 'auth' => false,
'username' => $Username, 'password' => $Password));

$mail = $SMTP->send($To, $Headers, $Message);

and here is the result which "\r\n" doesn't work for 2 lines in the middle:

This enquiry is created by: testing Organization: testing Telephone Number: 123456 E-mail address: test@hotmail.com Message: test

Any idea how to make this works? Thanks.

Outlook likes to strip line breaks out. There should be an option to show line breaks. You can use
instead that won't be strip. — Joshua Bixler, Apr 11 '14 at 02:55
Show the command you are using to send the email (I'm not willing to presume you have set the content-type header). PHP_EOL is the end of line for the platform running PHP. — , Apr 11 '14 at 02:56
@Annie You have a syntax error in your code. Can you clean up the code? And, show us the full e-mail source that gets sent with headers. — Brad, Apr 11 '14 at 03:11
Hi Brad, I can send email through this code, so I think the syntax is fine just the line break part is not working. — Annie, Apr 11 '14 at 03:13
The source of the actual message would be helpful for diagnostics. — tripleee, Apr 11 '14 at 03:14

Jabran Saeed · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-11T03:32:39.457

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You need to specifically declare content type to html to use html statements

$message_string = "\r\n";
$message_string .= 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"';
$message_string .= "\r\n";
$message_string .= $Message;

Now your break statements will take effect.

edited Apr 11 '14 at 03:32

answered Apr 11 '14 at 03:22

Jabran Saeed

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is this the solution? – Annie Apr 11 '14 at 03:28
Yes, in you $Message variable, add $message_string content before the actual message itself. and this should work. – Jabran Saeed Apr 11 '14 at 03:31
Yes and any other html based styling. – Jabran Saeed Apr 11 '14 at 03:34
how to add smpt setting in html mail? – Annie Apr 11 '14 at 03:38
just like you would do for plain text email – Jabran Saeed Apr 11 '14 at 03:45
should I use $mail = $SMTP->send($To, $Headers, $message_string);? Do I need to use in the body? – Annie Apr 11 '14 at 03:52
I just try and switch to html. Then the “\r\n” works without switching to
, thanks!. – Annie Apr 11 '14 at 04:02

score -2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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You need to <br> instead of \r\n because your content-type is text/html. Same question here: link

edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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answered Apr 11 '14 at 02:55

hoangkianh

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I tried
before and it just shows
in email. – Annie Apr 11 '14 at 03:05
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Nowhere is this e-mail specified as HTML. It isn't even encoded properly for that. – Brad Apr 11 '14 at 03:09

Plain text email next line doesn't work even with "\r\n"

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