I am writing a script that emails the output to me, and I read it in Outlook. For some reason Outlook removes all the line breaks in the message, and gives me a little notice that it has removed the extra line breaks from the message
How can I fix my message so that Outlook doesn't remove the line breaks?
- Outlook displays other messages fine (with correct line breaks)
- I have tried all these things with sed – s/$/\r/ s/$/\n/ s/\r\n/\n/ s/\n\r/\n/ s/$/^M/ – with no luck
What does Outlook expect at the end of a line?
Best Answer
Not sure about what it's looking for, but how about configuring Outlook to not remove them?
Tools -> Options -> Preferences Tab -> click E-mail Options button -> uncheck the box
Another option (albeit not ideal and maybe not even the case for your msgs):
And here's a post that says that a hack you can use would be to add 2 empty characters to the beginning of each line of text in order to make Outlook not remove the breaks.
Additionally see here for a better layout, add at least 3 spaces at the end of every line (incl. empty lines).