Newlines in Outlook 365 e-mail sent from Play Java

Question

When I try sending the below note using Play framework's e-mail utility as "text/html", the new line is not being preserved

     **Original string**
     this is a test
     this is a test

But what I see in my e-mail is the newline linebreaks being abandoned somewhere either in Outlook or in Java

     **Result**
     this is a test this is a test

I've tried all of the suggestion from below by adding br,\n, \r\n, \t\t, etc to my program and still cannot get the new lines to display properly

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 18 '17 at 22:05

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If your data is HTML, line break is the <br> HTML element.

answered Apr 18 '17 at 22:05

I've tried
and it is not working. The e-mail prints the
in the message – Noosphere Apr 18 '17 at 22:05
Then you are not sending as text/html. Is the whole thing a well formed HTML with the html and body tags? – Dmitry Streblechenko Apr 18 '17 at 22:07
that is a very good suggestion. on closer inspection I am going out as this is a test <br&gt this is a test <br&gt – Noosphere Apr 18 '17 at 22:16
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Thanks for remind about the well formatted HTML. That was my problem. – Noosphere Apr 19 '17 at 17:38

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