mail format change when received

Question

I have file.out logfile which contain plain text and formated as

1abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

2abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

3abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

<--------------------

4abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

5abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

6abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

My problem is when I received it in my mail box the format is changed

OUTPUT in MAILBOX

1abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 2abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 3abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

<---------------

4abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

5abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

6abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

the first 1,2,3 is not supposed to be in a single line. while the 4,5,6 stays formated as is.

the file was originally sent by perl script using Mail:Sendmail module, but I also tried sending through mail command to test also.

cat file.out | mail -s reportfile email@email.com cat file.out | mail -s reportfile email@email.com got the same result. I've also check the file and there is no extra spaces or characters.

Answer 1

MS Outlook 2007 issue. resolve it with this: go to Tools > Preferences > Email > Email-Options >Message handling > "Remove extra line breaks in plain text messages".