How to get line breaks in e-mail sent using Python's smtplib?

Question

I have written a script that writes a message to a text file and also sends it as an email. Everything goes well, except the email finally appears to be all in one line.

Answer 1

Unfortunately for us all, not every type of program or application uses the same standardization that python does.

Looking at your question i notice your header is: "Content-Type: text/html"

Which means you need to use HTML style tags for your new-lines, these are called line-breaks.


Your text should be:

"Dear Student, 
 Please send your report
 Thank you for your attention"

If you would rather use character type new-lines, you must change the header to read: "Content-Type: text/plain"

You would still have to change the new-line character from a single \n to the double \r\n which is used in email.

Your text would be:

"Dear Student, \r\n Please send your report\r\n Thank you for your attention"