Formatting is lost while sending mail in .Net 2.0

[dskinibbyb]

Hi Everybody,

I am sending mail using the new class in .Net 2.0.
Here while sending internal mails it is giving me problem.
Carriage return, Line feed and Spaces are lost while sending mails.
I am using msg.BodyEncodin g = System.Text.UTF 8Encoding.UTF8 to encode the body.
But same code and same mail is going fine , when sent to external mails (Like gmail, yahoo, etc.)
Please can anyone help me in solving my problem.
I even tried replacing the carriage return and lifeed like this,
If InStr(mStrBody, CChar(Microsoft .VisualBasic.Ch r(13)) + CChar(Microsoft .VisualBasic.Ch r(10)), CompareMethod.B inary) Then
mStrBody.Replac e(CChar(Microso ft.VisualBasic. Chr(13)) + CChar(Microsoft .VisualBasic.Ch r(10)), vbCrLf)
End If
But too its not working.
Thank you all in advance.
Deepak

[Plater]

You can use '\n' and '\r' instead of all that messy CHAR(13) business.
The common windows scheme is to have a \r\n.
If your messages are being sent as html (You didn't say) then you will need a <br/> wherever you want a new line to occur. Also, if it's html, a bunch of spaces will be condensed into a single space. You will need to use like &nbsp; to get extra spaces.

But I would first ensure that your emails are being sent as plain text.

[dskinibbyb]

You can use '\n' and '\r' instead of all that messy CHAR(13) business.
The common windows scheme is to have a \r\n.
If your messages are being sent as html (You didn't say) then you will need a <br/> wherever you want a new line to occur. Also, if it's html, a bunch of spaces will be condensed into a single space. You will need to use like &nbsp; to get extra spaces.

But I would first ensure that your emails are being sent as plain text.

Hi Plater,
I am Sending the mail as html only if the option IsHtml is ticked in my application. Can you plz tell me how to use (Or set ) the message.Body.Fo rmat to "Plain/Text". Actually the code is as follows, here i am replacing each "\r\n" i.e. "vbCrLf" with 2 vbCrLf's, then i was getting the mail in correct format.
the code is as follows..
Public Sub Send(ByVal strServerName As String, ByVal strUserName As String, ByVal strPassword As String)
Dim msg As System.Net.Mail .MailMessage
Dim objSMTP As New System.Net.Mail .SmtpClient(str ServerName)
Dim oAttachments As Attachment
Dim arrTmp As Array
Try
If mIntId <> 0 Then
If mDtNextRetry.Ti meOfDay <= System.DateTime .Now.TimeOfDay Then
Try
msg = New System.Net.Mail .MailMessage(mS trFrom, CStr(mStrTo), CStr(mStrSub), mStrBody)
If mStrCC <> "" Then
arrTmp = Split(mStrCC, ";")
For Each strCC As String In arrTmp
If strCC <> "" Then
msg.CC.Add(New MailAddress(str CC))
End If
Next
End If
If mStrBcc <> "" Then
arrTmp = Split(mStrBcc, ";")
For Each strBcc As String In arrTmp
msg.Bcc.Add(New MailAddress(str Bcc))
Next
End If
msg.IsBodyHtml = mBlnIsHtml
msg.BodyEncodin g = System.Text.UTF 8Encoding.UTF8
msg.DeliveryNot ificationOption s = Net.Mail.Delive ryNotificationO ptions.OnFailur e
For Each strAttachment As String In mColAttachment
oAttachments = New Attachment(strA ttachment)
msg.Attachments .Add(oAttachmen ts)
Next
objSMTP.Credent ials = New System.Net.Netw orkCredential(s trUserName, strPassword)
objSMTP.Deliver yMethod = SmtpDeliveryMet hod.Network
msg.Body = msg.Body.Replac e(vbCrLf, vbCrLf + vbCrLf)
objSMTP.Send(ms g)
mIntStatus = MailStatus.Sent
mDtSentOn = System.DateTime .Now
Catch ex As Exception
mIntAttempt = mIntAttempt + 1
If mIntAttempt = 3 Then
mIntStatus = MailStatus.UnSe ndable
Else
mIntStatus = MailStatus.Erro rInMail
End If
mDtNextRetry = System.DateTime .Now.Date.Add(S ystem.DateTime. Now.TimeOfDay). AddHours(2)
mDtSentOn = CDate("1-1-1900")
End Try
UpdateMail()
End If
End If

Catch ex As Exception
Throw ex
End Try
End Sub
Can u suggest me is anything is wrong inthis code?
Thanks
Deepak

[Plater]

For HTML, "\r\n" (vbCRLF) is not an html line termination string. I would make a check to an html quickguide to do some formating.

For Plain Text, how it looks in a textbox is how it should look when it's sent, without any changes required.