Thanks for the tip. I used as_string, and it shows that the module is indeed expanding the \n to \r\n.

I'm using postfix as my MTA. It sounds like postfix on a Unix system will blindly change any \n to \r\n, trying to helpfully give you the right CRLF line terminator...The extra carriage return is what's causing my problem.

According to the exim documentation, exim's MTA handles this more intelligently, which is probably why gmargo couldn't duplicate this.

This SEEMS to me like a bug in Email::Stuff or one of its dependencies. My understanding is that the Unix convention is for the MUA to use the local line terminator (a bare newline), and that the MTA is responsible for massaging this correctly for internet delivery...

In reply to Re^2: blank lines in email by jason_s
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