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		Retric on May 14, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that ... You can just pipe your email through something that removes HTML. Outlook seems to just ignore line breaks by default. But, there is probably a mime type to get around that.

jeremysmyth on May 15, 2016 | [–]

HTML ignores line breaks. If you're using plain text, the format=flowed header is what ignores line breaks. Not all clients support it.

bitwize on May 15, 2016 | [–]

It's not just Outlook.

Exchange adds this mush to emails which were sent in plain text.

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