Topic: How do you encode a carriage return in Java-gen'd string that becomes body of "text/plain" mail sent via JavaMail?

How do you encode a carriage return in Java-gen'd string that becomes body of "text/plain" mail sent via JavaMail?

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Posted By: Sara_Taylor
Posted On: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:02 AM

I'm using Java to dynamically generating text strings which become the body of "text/plain" emails sent via JavaMail. How do I encode a carriage return or line feed in these strings to produce line breaks when the email is viewed by the recipient? FYI: "text/html" mails are prohibited

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Re: How do you encode a carriage return in Java-gen'd string that becomes body of "text/plain" mail sent via JavaMail?

Posted By: Christopher_Koenigsberg
Posted On: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 01:42 PM

An ordinary line break char should do.

(depending on the underlying system this could be a linefeed for Unix, or a carriage return for Mac, or a pair of both for MS Windows)

Note that in transmission via SMTP, line breaks in the encoded transmission need to be pairs (carriage return + linefeed). But typically your message body will be encoded by some content-transfer-encoding to protect the internal linebreaks, so they may have no relation to the linebreaks sent in transmission.

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