Based on Email::Send::SMTP::Gmail, I infer that the module is sending in text/html rather than text/plain (that's probably a gmail default or something), so newlines alone won't be sufficient. Replace your send line with:

$mail->send(-to=>"$to", -from=>"$from", -subject=>"$subject", -body=>j
+oin "<br>\n", @push_list,  "total files pushed: $filecount");

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I took @push_list out of the string, because it doesn't stringify the way you think it does: it doesn't automatically add \n after each element of the list just because you say "@push_list\n". I converted that to a join to make sure every element is separated by the newline. I also changed the joining from just "\n" to "<br>\n", so that there will be an HTML break between each entry, not just a newline (which HTML ignores). Finally, I included the total-count string as part of the join, to automate a line break between your list and the total at the end.

TIMTOWTDI: instead of the the join, if you changed to local $" = "<br>\n";, then the stringification you used would do almost what you wanted... you'd just have to add a <br> before your final \n as well:

local $" = "<br>\n";
$mail->send(-to=>"$to", -from=>"$from", -subject=>"$subject", -body=>"
+@push_list<br>\ntotal files pushed: $filecount");

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edit: bumped the create button before finishing, so finished my example

edit2: here's a link to $LIST_SEPARATOR for $".

In reply to Re: adding carriage return to gmail script by pryrt
in thread adding carriage return to gmail script by flieckster

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