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    Hi, I want to send values from a form in a custom module to an email box. I used the chris hammond recommended method and tried passing the form values with line breaks in a body variable 

     DotNetNuke.Services.Mail.Mail.SendMail("[email protected]", "[email protected]", "", "THIS IS THE SUBJECT", body, "", "HTML", "", "", "", "" );

    It works fine , but no matter what I do the values all line up on one long line in outlook,  rather than the vertical list I want.

    I have tried several methods with \n, \r\n,Environment.Newline  for example
    string body = @"  From: " + txtFirstName.Text + Environment.NewLine;
            body += "  Email: " + txtEmail.Text + Environment.NewLine;
            body += "  Subject: " + txtSubject.Text + "\r\n";
            body += "  Question: \n" + txtComments.Text + "\r\n";

    I have even tried using stringBuilder appendline in several ways but still no joy

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            sb.Append("  \r\n\r\n").Append("Name: " + txtFirstName.Text +'\n');
            sb.Append("  \r\n\r\n").Append("Email: " + txtEmail.Text +'\n');
            sb.AppendLine("Subject: " + txtSubject.Text +'\n');
            sb.AppendLine("Comments: " + txtComments.Text +'\n');
            string body = sb.ToString(); 

    Has anyone got a working example??






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      If it's an HTML email, it may be you need to add line break elements. So instead of \n try adding < br > (but without the extra spaces - adding code snippets on this forum is hard!)






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        Yes, you are absolutely right, I missed I had added the HTML parameter. doh too close methinks.
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