String 中的转义字符‘\r\n’在用EMAIL发出来后发现在OUTLOOK中没起作用

content.append("Error occurs when allocate this SHTT messages - ").append("\r\n").append("Error Message -").append("\r\n"); 发现在email中的内容中没有换行。

google 了一下，国外的朋友说要在每行最后加个"."就可以了，所以改成

content.append("Error occurs when allocate this SHTT messages.").append("\r\n").append("Error Message -").append("\r\n"); 就没这个问题了。

 

I'm trying to send an email in Java but when I read the body of the email in Outlook, it's gotten rid of all my linebreaks. I'm putting \n at the ends of the lines but is there something special I need to do other than that? The receivers are always going to be using Outlook. I found a page on microsoft.com that says there's a 'Remove line breaks' "feature" in Outlook so does this mean there's no solution to get around that other than un-checking that setting? Thanks java email outlook newline line-breaks link | improve this question edited Sep 26 '08 at 20:19 Chris 3,572 1 18 43 asked Sep 25 '08 at 20:58 MattGrommes 2,467 4 14 22 78% accept rate

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up vote 7 down vote accepted	You need to use \r\n as a solution. link | improve this answer edited Sep 13 '11 at 19:14 JVerstry 6,379 6 13 44 answered Sep 25 '08 at 21:01 Robert Wilkinson 458 5 17
	6   While this might help simply ending a line in \r\n does not guarantee that Outlook keeps the line break. –  GaussZ Jun 22 '10 at 15:44 feedback

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I've just been fighting with this today. Let's call the behavior of removing the extra line breaks "continuation." A little experimenting finds the following behavior: Every message starts with continuation off. Lines less than 40 characters long do not trigger continuation, but if continuation is on, they will have their line breaks removed. Lines 40 characters or longer turn continuation on. It remains on until an event occurs to turn it off. Lines that end with a period, question mark, exclamation point or colon turn continuation off. (Outlook assumes it's the end of a sentence?) Lines that turn continuation off will start with a line break, but will turn continuation back on if they are longer than 40 characters. Lines that start or end with a tab turn continuation off. Lines that start with 2 or more spaces turn continuation off. Lines that end with 3 or more spaces turn continuation off. Please note that I tried all of this with Outlook 2007. YMMV. So if possible, you can end messages with a sentence-terminating punctuation mark, or even a tab. link | improve this answer answered Oct 28 '09 at 16:59 mtruesdell 681 1 6 15

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Microsoft Outlook 2002 and above removes "extra line breaks" from text messages by default(kb308319). That is, Outlook seems to simply ignore line feed and/or carriage return sequences in text messages, running all of the lines together. This can cause problems if you're trying to write code that will automatically generate an email message to be read by someone using Outlook. For example, suppose you want to supply separate pieces of information each on separate lines for clarity, like this: Transaction needs attention! PostedDate: 1/30/2009 Amount: $12,222.06 TransID: 8gk288g229g2kg89 PostalCode: 91543 Your Outlook recipient will see the information all smashed together, as follows: Transaction needs attention! PostedDate: 1/30/2009 Amount: $12,222.06 TransID: 8gk288g229g2kg89 ZipCode: 91543 There doesn't seem to be an easy solution. Alternatives are: You can supply two sets of line breaks between each line. That does stop Outlook from combining the lines onto one line, but it then displays an extra blank line between each line (creating the opposite problem). By "supply two sets of line breaks" I mean you should use "\r\n\r\n" or "\r\r" or "\n\n" but not "\r\n" or "\n\r". You can supply two spaces at the beginning of every line in the body of your email message. That avoids introducing an extra blank line between each line. But this works best if each line in your message is fairly short, because the user may be previewing the text in a very narrow Outlook window that wraps the end of each line around to the first position on the next line, where it won't line up with your two-space-indented lines. This strategy has been used for somenewsletters. You can give up on using a plain text format, and use an html format. link | improve this answer answered Jan 30 '09 at 23:29 user60849 81 1 1

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You can force a line break in outlook when attaching one (or two?) tab characters (\t) just before the line break (CRLF). Example: This is my heading in the mail\t\n  Just here Outlook is forced to begin a new line.  It seems to work on Outlook 2010. Please test if this works on other versions. See also Outlook autocleaning my line breaks and screwing up my email format link | improve this answer edited Feb 17 '11 at 11:06 answered Feb 17 '11 at 8:54 stephg 51 1 2

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up vote 2 down vote	I had the same issue, and found a solution. Try this: %0D%0A to add a line break. link | improve this answer edited Sep 13 '11 at 19:13 JVerstry 6,379 6 13 44 answered Dec 14 '10 at 13:35 Mark 21 1
	+1 for alternative, I solved with yours only. –  confeng Mar 17 at 11:39 feedback

up vote 0 down vote	You need to send HTML emails. With <br />s in the email, you will always have your line breaks. link | improve this answer answered Sep 25 '08 at 21:15 hova 1,809 5 12
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RESOLVED IN MY APPLICATION In my application, I was trying to send an email whose message body was typed by the user in text area. When mail was send, outlook automatically removed line break entered by user. e.g if user entered Yadav Mahesh outlook displayed it as YadavMahesh Resolution: I changed the line break character "\r\n" with "\par " ( remember to hit space at the end of RTF code "\par" )and line breaks are restrored. Cheers, Mahesh link | improve this answer edited Jan 4 '11 at 6:33 answered Dec 30 '10 at 6:41 Mahesh Yadav 21 3

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up vote 0 down vote	If you can add in a '.' (dot) character at the end of each line, this seems to prevent Outlook ruining text formatting. link | improve this answer answered May 17 '11 at 9:22 monojohnny 1,354 7 23
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up vote 0 down vote	Try this: message.setContent(new String(body.getBytes(), "iso-8859-1"),                      "text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"");  Regards, Mohammad Rasool Javeed link | improve this answer edited Sep 13 '11 at 19:12 JVerstry 6,379 6 13 44 answered Dec 1 '09 at 11:57 Mohammad Rasool Javeed 1
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up vote 0 down vote	Try \r\c instead of \n. EDIT: I think @Robert Wilkinson had it right. \r\n. Memory just isn't what it used to be. link | improve this answer edited Sep 13 '11 at 19:13 JVerstry 6,379 6 13 44 answered Sep 25 '08 at 20:59 EBGreen 9,745 3 23 45
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up vote 0 down vote	The \n largely works for us, but Outlook does sometimes take it upon itself to remove the line breaks as you say. link | improve this answer edited Sep 13 '11 at 19:14 JVerstry 6,379 6 13 44 answered Sep 25 '08 at 21:03 cagcowboy 9,003 1 20 43
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I have a good solution that I tried it, it is just add the Char(13) at end of line like the following example: Dim S As String   S = "Some Text" & Chr(13)   S = S + "Some Text" & Chr(13)