Line Breaks in Entourage Emails

Question

I have an entoruage client that when it receives HTMl emails, it completely ignores any line breaks in teh HTML, text just shows up all together. These mails look fine in Outlook and in webmail, just entourage. How can I get it to recognise these line breaks?

Answer 1

I think Entourage still does not support format=flowed, like in:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes

Maybe the HTML mails you get (erroneously) rely on that? We would have to see some e-mail headers and a bit of the content to ensure that's the reason though.

Maybe you can write some script to fix it, just like an issue with ActiveSync, for which you can Use AppleScript to read ActiveSync Sent Items in Entourage. But then we'd still need to see some detailed information.

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Answer 2

It actually sounds like it is doing the right thing here. In HTML, a plain old linebreak character has no meaning. To do a linebreak in html, you need to use a <br /> tag, or enclose your text in <p></p> tags.

Answer 3

HTML < br /> or < p>< /p> (good for HTML 4 transitional)

Answer 4

Just had the same problem with Entourage. Using "<br>" instead of "<br/>" solved the problem.