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Outlook Line Breaks
Summary: How to configure outlook to not remove line breaks in plain text emails.
Date: Around 2014
Refactor: 4 January 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Introduction
I receive a lot of mail which is plain text, coming from unix and linux servers who are trying to tell me something. The bad luck is, the company has settled for outlook :( . And outlook breaks these emails. I do get an information bar telling me: “Extra line breaks in this message were removed” but I have to click and click again and it's just not working how I like it. This so-called feature is called “Auto Remove Line Breaks” and is enabled by default in Outlook. To disable it follow these steps:
- Open Outlook.
- On the Tools menu, click Options.
- On the Preferences tab, click the E-mail Options button.
- Click to clear the “Remove extra line breaks in plain text messages” check box:
- Click OK two times.