Cfmail and Missing Line Breaks
Here's a quick tip I learned today on CF-Talk about CFMAIL and whitespace. If you are using CFMAIL to send plain text mail but you set the "suprressWhitespace" attribute to YES it will strip out the whitspace and cause the mail to be sent without line breaks. To fix it, simply wrap your cfmail tag in a cfprocessingdirective tag, like this:
<cfprocessingdirective suppresswhitespace="No">
<cfmail from="blah" to ="blah" subject="more blah">
even more blah with a linebreak
some more blah
sincerly
blah blah
</cfmail>
</cfprocessingdirective>
While I have not had this problem I now know the solution.
<cfmail from="blah" to ="blah" subject="more blah">
even more blah with a linebreak
some more blah
sincerly
blah blah
</cfmail>
</cfprocessingdirective>
11 Comments
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I think you also get this if you use the CF Admin setting to suppress white space. -
Great Scott! I can't tell you how often I've *forced* line breaks (using chr(13)/chr(10)) because I had no idea what was causing them to be removed. And now I feel like an idiot because the reason makes so much sense. Since this was such a revelation to me I probably won't forget again, but nonetheless, this blog post is getting bookmarked. Seriously. -
Ray - thanks, good point.
Rob, Glad I could help. Before I posted this entry I googled around because I figured someone else was bound to have blogged it, but I didn't find anything. So I figured it was a good "nugget" to record for posterity :) -
my boss wants me to send a text message to engineer's cell phones when emergencies come up and since I have no SMS gateway (can you do that with MX7 Standard?) I just email their cell phone number but the message isn't formatted as expected. I have whitespace management selected in the administrator. Might that also be the reason I get weird issues with line breaks in my pseudo-excel output when I export data (I sometimes just output plain text with .xls extension)? -
This tip is very useful! We are upgrading some CF5 servers and experienced the issue with text email messages being sent with all of the text on one line. Your tip has helped us to quickly resolve this issue. Thanks! -
This tip is very useful! We are upgrading some CF5 servers and experienced the issue with text email messages being sent with all of the text on one line. Your tip has helped us to quickly resolve this issue. Thanks!
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thanks for the tip. This was a very aggravating issue to deal with. -
Another "me too" post to say thanks for posting this information. We have a trouble ticket system that allows generation of tickets via e-mail, and using your tip made it finally work properly.
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