Apache Commons Mail: how get new line in simple email?

Question

Silly newbie question. I can generate an email message body using,

email.setMsg("Paragraph 1 goes here."); 

which outputs:

Paragraph 1 goes here.

Now what I want to generate looks like:

Paragraph 1 goes here.
Paragraph 2 goes here.

But if I use:

email.setMsg("Paragraph 1 goes here."); 
email.setMsg("Paragraph 2 goes here."); 

All I get is:

Paragraph 2 goes here.

How to add manual line breaks?

Answer 1

Assuming you're on UNIX system:

email.setMsg("Paragraph 1 goes here.\nParagraph 2 goes here."); 

To make the code platform agnostic you can lookup the linebreak using System.getProperty("line.separator") :

String ENDL = System.getProperty("line.separator");
email.setMsg("Paragraph 1 goes here." + ENDL + "Paragraph 2 goes here."); 

If you use HTML email:

email.setMsg("<p>Paragraph 1 goes here.</p><p>Paragraph 2 goes here.</p>");