> I realized what the problem was. Blank lines.

It's been a wile since I worked with the email format, but I seem to remember empty lines¹ have syntactic meaning to separate header and different "paragraph portions" (like content and attachments) of the email. (I'm too tired to look up the correct terminology)

So I guess that Outlook doesn't see the whole HTML to belong to the same part of the email, because it splits on paragraphs. ³

I bet, you could just base64 encode your HTML and it would work ... provided you set the correct content encoding. Outlook should happily accept empty lines inside HTML then. ²

You could also insert space characters where they are ignored by HTML to have non-empty lines.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

Update

¹) i.e., a line with nothing preceding the CRLF

²) I always use base64 for inserted content outside my control. ⁴

³) in the meantime I tried to look it up in the (many) RFCs and there is a mention of an old format interfering...

⁴) NB: there is also a 1000 characters per line restriction in emails, which is solved by base64 with its maximum line length of 76 characters.

In reply to Re: Is ChatGPT like having a thousand monkeys? (Empty lines in emails) by LanX
in thread Is ChatGPT like having a thousand monkeys? by talexb

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