MIME Lite no line feed in Message body

Hi i wrote a simple script to send email using MIME:Lite on Linux machine. I am trying to write the email body from a flat file, but the new line characters are not appearing in the email body. Sample code:

my $mime_msg = MIME::Lite->new( 
          From => $from_user, 
          To   => $to_users, 
          Bcc  => $bcc_users, 
          Cc  => $cc_users, 
          Subject => $subject, 
          Type => "multipart/related") or die "Error creating MIME bod
+y: $!\n";

my $body='/tmp/file.txt'

$mime_msg->attach(Type => 'text/html', Path => $body, Filename => $bod
+y ) or die "Error attaching html: $!\n"; 

$smtp->data(); 
$smtp->datasend($message_body); 
$smtp->dataend();
#close connection 
$smtp->quit();
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=== file1.txt ==

Line one
line two
line three

I am able to send an email but the body of the email is not as expected. the new lines are stripped out.

===== Mail body ===

Line one line two line three

I am wondering hot to get the mail body as is in the file1.txt ie line breaks are missing. I am not sure why perl is not considering the new line chars as line breaks. Appreciate you help.

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Re: MIME Lite no line feed in Message body by Corion (Pope) on Jun 26, 2011 at 11:54 UTC
Your content type is `text/html`. HTML line breaks are different from text line feeds. Either learn about HTML or use `text/plain` as your content type. You might also want to think about the character encoding and specify that as well.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: MIME Lite no line feed in Message body by sudheer157 (Initiate) on Jun 26, 2011 at 12:10 UTC
Thanks Corion, changing it to "text/plain" resolved the issue. is there any way perl can interpret the format automatically if the file is a plain or html, because my case is the body file may be a plain or html file. so really need a way to identify the format and use plain or html accordingly. Any Ideas?	[reply]
Re^3: MIME Lite no line feed in Message body by derby (Monsignor) on Jun 26, 2011 at 12:20 UTC
File::Type, File::MMagic, File::MimeInfo ... and probably more. They all have their plusses and minuses. Knowing the file type beats guessing the file type. -derby	[reply]
Re^3: MIME Lite no line feed in Message body by ww (Chancellor) on Jun 26, 2011 at 13:12 UTC
"so really need a way to identify the format and use plain or html accordingly." If you're sending it, you should know what the content is. So, no, you don't "really need" some external evaluation of the file type... unless you're being paid to send spam without reviewing the content :-) That said, you might also consider a file test construct like: `unless -T $FH ...(do something)` See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfunc.html But - - IMO - - it's "the long way around Robin Hood's barn" to code up file-type-test procedures and translate their output to something you can stick into `$mime_msg->attach(Type => '....` unless you have some need to send files whose type is not readily discernable by inspection... or such a volume to send that inspection is impractical. PS, just in case: the idiom marked with quotes in the previous para translates (roughly) to "the hard way" or "a poor way."	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: MIME Lite no line feed in Message body by sudheer157 (Initiate) on Jun 27, 2011 at 12:07 UTC
Re^5: MIME Lite no line feed in Message body by Anonymous Monk on Jun 27, 2011 at 12:19 UTC
Re^5: MIME Lite no line feed in Message body by sudheer157 (Initiate) on Jun 27, 2011 at 15:09 UTC
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