PHPMailer - how can I add break lines in altbody?

Question

How can I add break lines?

I'm using this:

$mailbody=$username."\r\n";
$mailbody.=$email."\r\n";

$altbody=$username."\r\n";
$altbody.=$email."\r\n";

But break lines are not there.

I'm using $altbody because for some reason the software I use to receive the emails does not read HTML, only plain text, so, $altbody is the body when the email reader does not support HTML, so, I can't use BR neither...

Any ideas?

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 05 '12 at 07:36

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normally linebreaks with only \n should work in plain text emails.
but stick to the <br/>s in your html-mail $mailbody.

answered Mar 05 '12 at 07:36

Philipp Kyeck

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I can't use
in a non-html mailer and for some reason it removes the \r and \n – Thomas Hardy Mar 05 '12 at 07:53
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Late to the party. I had the same problem. The \n's were stripped because there was a msgHTML() after setting the AltBody, msgHTML recreates the AltBody. Fixed by first calling msgHTML() and afterwards setting the AltBody. – Jan Ehrhardt Jul 23 '20 at 23:34

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 28 '14 at 14:10

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Do you have code earlier on that formats the message body? You may inadvertently be stripping out all html tags and all \ (e.g. if you use stripslashes).

answered Oct 28 '14 at 14:10

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 29 '15 at 21:30

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I had a similar issue when I sent an email with text from an HTML textarea. Solved it by using php nl2br.

answered Nov 29 '15 at 21:30

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 28 '16 at 23:47

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With PHPMailer you need to use the entire include entire <html> block. Try this:

$msg = "<html><body>
Type your messsage here.<br><br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Contributor
</body></html>";

edited Jan 28 '16 at 23:47

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answered Jan 28 '16 at 23:27

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 05 '17 at 12:37

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You can try heredoc like as

$altbody = <<<MAIL
Hello $username,

Welcome to example.com!
MAIL;

or

$altbody = <<<MAIL
Hello $username,\nWelcome to example.com!
MAIL;

answered Jan 05 '17 at 12:37

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Jan 15 '19 at 13:39

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$text  = $sender_name."<br>";
$text .=$reply_to_email."<br>";
$text .= $Mobile_No."<br>";
$text .= $message."<br>";

edited Jan 15 '19 at 13:39

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answered Jan 15 '19 at 09:51

Deepak Kisan Mahadik

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This has 1 missing start quote – Matt Jan 15 '19 at 09:59
The OP explicitly says they cannot use `
` tags because their software does not support HTML. – Al.G. Jan 15 '19 at 12:13

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 27 '20 at 12:25

This does not directly answer the question asked, but it does answer the question that led me to this post (and i cant leave a comment yet):

I used single quotes, but PHP interprets single and double quotes in a different manner.

Try using double quotes for the AltBody like "\n" and not '\n'.

PHPMailer - how can I add break lines in altbody?

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