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Jay Potter
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I am trying to create an email via edamqail that displays multiple lines in the body. I have looked at different examples on focalpoint tried to modify them. At first I thought the -lines was allowing the body to have multple lines, but it looks like it allows multple lines of code. Below is one of the examples I was working with.
 
-*-MRNOEDIT EX -lines 5 EDAMAIL to=Jay Potter,toaddr=jpotter@EnclaraPharmacia.com, from=jpotter@EnclaraPharmacia.com,subject=jay testing, message=testing email ,
-* line2 ,
-* line3 ,
-* line4  ,
-* line5  ,


I would like the body of the email to look like this.

testing email
line2
line3
line4
line5 
 
I have tried to put <html><body><a>Test</a></body><html> in the code also. Can I use html tags to change the fonts?

After trying other scenarios that all display the body in one single line, I wonder if it is a setting that I need to change.

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Thanks

I tried that code and it put the body all as one line wrapped.


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Here's the easy way:
  
-SET &ECHO=ALL;
-SET &TEXT        = 'EDAMAIL Test';
-SET &LEAD_NAME   = 'tflynn13';
-SET &OUT_FILE    = &LEAD_NAME || '_Testing_EDAMAIL';

-* Separate target multiple EMAIL's here

-SET &EMAIL_TO_FR = 'tflynn13@your_domain.com' || ',' | 'tflynn_in_va@your_domain.com';
SET PAGE-NUM = OFF
TABLE FILE IBISAMP/CAR
HEADING
"This is Line 1"
"This is Line 2"
"This is Line 3"
"This is Line 4"
"This is Line 5"
" "
PRINT
     MODEL
   BY COUNTRY
   BY CAR
 ON TABLE HOLD AS '&OUT_FILE.EVAL' FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=TITLE, STYLE=BOLD+UNDERLINE, SIZE=9, FONT=ARIAL,$
ENDSTYLE
END
-RUN
EX EDAMAIL &EMAIL_TO_FR,&TEXT,B,HTML,&OUT_FILE
-RUN


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Jay Potter
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Thanks for replying.

One of the issues is that I have an attachment. So technically it says you can't have a inline body with an attachment. But I am trying to get around it. There has been suggestions to insert HTML tags, but my emails go out as plain text instead of HTML. I have IBI support looking into it.


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OK, Please let us know...


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Waz
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In my last job we had a perl script to send the emails, and it supported what ever you wanted.


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Jay, use the following:

-SET &CRLF = HEXBYT(13,'A1')|HEXBYT(10,'A1');
-SET &ERSAND='&';
-SET &LINEBREAK=&ERSAND||'CRLF.EVAL';

-WRITE TEXT NOCLOSE &INPUT &CRLF.EVAL
-CLOSE TEXT


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Jay Potter
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Thanks for your suggestion. I have tried different variations making a parameter equal to something and adding that parameter into the message section of the edamail command. Whatever I try to insert displays on a single line. (/n/r, /t/t, /r/n,
,
....)

When I entered your code it didn't display anything after where the code would have been. As if it was an error without displaying an error.

Thanks everyone for all your suggestions. Hopefully support will be able to figure it out. I will let you know.


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I have achieved something similar by creating an html page and saving it to a directory, and then including that file in the email. So the message text is in the .htm file. Not sure how your email server will handle this, but ours puts the .htm file inline in the email.

 EX EDAMAIL  receiveremail@email.com, senderemail@email.com, SUBJECT,,HTML, file.htm


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Originally posted by SWES:
Jay, use the following:

-SET &CRLF = HEXBYT(13,'A1')|HEXBYT(10,'A1');
-SET &ERSAND='&';
-SET &LINEBREAK=&ERSAND||'CRLF.EVAL';

-WRITE TEXT NOCLOSE &INPUT &CRLF.EVAL
-CLOSE TEXT


Hi SWES,
Sorry, I am very new to WebFocus. Can you give me a working example of this? I got the email working with attachment with inline body message (Not HTML). I just need to have a multi lines messages to show up.


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