Hi i wrote a simple script to send email using MIME:Lite on Linux machine. I am trying to write the email body from a flat file, but the new line characters are not appearing in the email body. Sample code: 
my $mime_msg = MIME::Lite->new( 
          From => $from_user, 
          To   => $to_users, 
          Bcc  => $bcc_users, 
          Cc  => $cc_users, 
          Subject => $subject, 
          Type => "multipart/related") or die "Error creating MIME bod
+y: $!\n";

my $body='/tmp/file.txt'

$mime_msg->attach(Type => 'text/html', Path => $body, Filename => $bod
+y ) or die "Error attaching html: $!\n"; 

$smtp->data(); 
$smtp->datasend($message_body); 
$smtp->dataend();
#close connection 
$smtp->quit();

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=== file1.txt ==

Line one
line two
line three

I am able to send an email but the body of the email is not as expected. the new lines are stripped out.

===== Mail body ===

Line one line two line three

I am wondering hot to get the mail body as is in the file1.txt ie line breaks are missing. I am not sure why perl is not considering the new line chars as line breaks. Appreciate you help.

In reply to MIME Lite no line feed in Message body by sudheer157

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