# Excessive spacing on text/plain email content

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/excessive-spacing-on-text-plain-email-content/61297>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Avril 20, 2017, 4:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excessive-spacing-on-text-plain-email-content/61297 "2017-04-20T04:18:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)\
**Post date:** [Avril 20, 2017, 11:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excessive-spacing-on-text-plain-email-content/61297/4 "2017-04-20T23:19:32Z")

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Not asked, but equally important: Can you describe how to observe this issue?

Some answers:

1. Use a mail user agent (MUA) that prefers text/plain parts to text/html parts. (I use a heavily customized version of `mailx`, your milage may vary.)
2. View the mail file on disk in a text editor to see how it is constructed.
3. Use power tools in your MUA of choice to look at other MIME alternative formats.

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