General - Error - SMTP inserting spaces
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Topic: General - Error - SMTP inserting spaces
Posted By: luwandui
Subject: General - Error - SMTP inserting spaces
Date Posted: 25 August 2011 at 10:12am
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Hi, I'm sending long HTML emails via SMTP, however it seems to put a line break in after so many characters (hard to say how many) which can sometimes cause links to not work or just generally mess up the template design. What's the best way of addressing this? |
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 26 August 2011 at 5:30pm
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It's likely that it's a setting in your email client to break at 80 characters.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 26 August 2011 at 5:46pm
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Have seen this before with some email components, such as CDONTS. The way to prevent it is to insert a Carriage Return and Line Break in to the body of the email sent to the mail server. If you are using ASP with VbScript as I believe you are you need to add vbCrLf between lines eg:-
------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |