Nico Weichbrod wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> is there any way to format the message-body so i can use paragraphs in my
> vacation reply text. Unix syntax like '\n' do not work. The entire text is in
> only one line of the reply message. What can i do?
>From RFC3028:
For entering larger amounts of text, such as an email message, a
multi-line form is allowed. It starts with the keyword "text:",
followed by a CRLF, and ends with the sequence of a CRLF, a single
period, and another CRLF. In order to allow the message to contain
lines with a single-dot, lines are dot-stuffed. That is, when
composing a message body, an extra `.' is added before each line
which begins with a `.'. When the server interprets the script,
these extra dots are removed. Note that a line that begins with a
dot followed by a non-dot character is not interpreted dot-stuffed;
that is, ".foo" is interpreted as ".foo". However, because this is
potentially ambiguous, scripts SHOULD be properly dot-stuffed so such
lines do not appear.
Note that a hashed comment or whitespace may occur in between the
"text:" and the CRLF, but not within the string itself. Bracketed
comments are not allowed here.
For example:
vacation text:
On vacation.
Talk to you when I get back.
.
;
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