How to prevent strong formatting lose in Email send?

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Cant figure it out.

I have a MailMessage msg.

I am trying to send email by using EmailClient.Send(msg). I't working but, in email body I nave a several new lines (\n) and they are not transferred to my email message. Instead of normal email, I am getting a single line with text, and also without \n - they are simply disappeared.

How can I prevent this thing and get a normal email with new lines?

Posted 26-May-14 1:36am

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[no name] 26-May-14 7:41am

Sounds to me that you have your email set to use HTML. Switch to normal text or replace the newlines with <BR>

Member 10503105 26-May-14 8:12am

Thanks)

V. 26-May-14 7:48am

also use \n\r instead of just \n

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Member 10844988 · Answer 1 · 2014-05-26T07:27:00

using System.Net;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Net.Mime;

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            SmtpClient Smtp = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587); //SMTP server and port number
            Smtp.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("yourmail@gmail.com", "password");
            Smtp.EnableSsl = true;
            MailMessage Message = new MailMessage();
            Message.From = new MailAddress("yourmail@gmail.com", "Sender Name", Encoding.UTF8);
            Message.To.Add(new MailAddress("abc@abc.com"));
            Message.Subject = "New Message";
            Message.SubjectEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
            Message.Body = "Message text\n123\n456\n789";
            Smtp.Send(Message);
        }

The result:

Message text
123
456
789