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mailsend-go is a multi-platform command line tool to send mail via SMTP protocol
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Line break in sent messages #25

Closed drdunn858 closed 4 years ago

drdunn858 commented 4 years ago

How can I insert a line break in the message being sent as it is a long message?

muquit commented 4 years ago

mailsend-go -ex

body -msg "hello, world!\nThis is a message"

The embedded new line \n will be converted to a real newline and the final message will show up as two lines.

drdunn858 commented 4 years ago

Thank you, but this does not work, however, after a lot of attempts, I found that formatting as html ie body -msg "

hello, world!</>

This is a message

" worked for me.

Wolf-SO commented 4 years ago

Wouldn't is be possible that this depends on the \n convention of the operation system? The handling of \n could be different between Go and C - I only know that C treats \n in text files (which is the default) as the actual OS line break encoding. Go may be different here. I'm just guessing, but Questions like Golang: Issues replacing newlines in a string from a text file - Stack Overflow seem to support my assumption.

muquit commented 4 years ago

I tested it by sending mail from Linux, Mac and Windows to gmail and another email provider. It works. I used the script test/test_body_txt.sh. 

body -msg 'This is a text message in mail body.\nThis is a new line.\nThis another new line'

The mail in gmail and in other mail provider looks correct.

This is a text message in mail body.
This is a new line.
This another new line

I'm not sure what I'm missing here. Thanks.

Wolf-SO commented 4 years ago

I see. I was a bit confused by the last response by @drdunn858 and so I tried to figure out (theoretically) what could be the reason. (I'm currently not actively using mailsend-go but I was for mailsend and plan a future use.) Sorry if my comment only added more confusion.

drdunn858 commented 4 years ago

My response somehow caused confusion I had to use < p > and < / p > etc to format as html, but the site converted it to the message. In windows 10, the \ n did not work. (I added spaces to see if it would look right.)

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drdunn858 commented 4 years ago

I had to use <p>Line 1</p><p>Line 2</p> as Line 1 \n Line 2 did not work in windows 10 sending to gmail or live from gmail.