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Hi! I've begun using Email::Stuff in my scripts lately. I'm having a problem, where it's putting extra blank lines after newlines. I don't see this behavior when sending directly through sendmail. Here's my test program:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Email::Stuff;

my $body="line1\nline2\n";
my $to='jason@example.com';

#use email::stuff
Email::Stuff->to($to)
            ->subject("hello from Email::Stuff")
            ->text_body($body)            
            ->send;

#use sendmail
open ( MAILER, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -t" );
print MAILER "To: $to\n";
print MAILER "Subject: hello from sendmail\n";
print MAILER "$body";

close MAILER;
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When I run it, I get two mails (headers scrubbed): The mail sent using Mail::Stuff has a blank line in it:

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:12:38 -0800
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
To: jason@########.com
Subject: hello from Email::Stuff
Message-Id: <20100115231238.CD5CE2DBBBA@evo>
From: jason@evo.u.lg.########.com (Jason Speck)

line1

line2

The mail sent via sendmail does not have a blank line in it.

To: jason@######.com
Subject: test using sendmail
Message-Id: <20100115231238.D9DBC81EACA@evo>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:12:38 -0800 (PST)
From: jason@evo.u.lg.######.com (Jason Speck)

line1
line2

I suspect that Email::Stuff is doing what it's supposed to, but I'm just not understanding something about how mail works. I'd like to understand (1), where the blank lines after newlines are coming from, and (2) how to get rid of them so that I can get the formatting that I want.

In reply to blank lines in email by jason_s

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