# Line breaks when replying via email
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2016年五月18日 14:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440 "2016-05-18T14:16:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@thomasschmit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thomasschmit)
#### Post date: [2016年五月18日 14:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440/1 "2016-05-18T14:16:50Z")
When replying by mail, Discourse set a line break every 70 characters or so.
Is it made on purpose ? It’s quite unsightly.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2016年五月18日 15:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440/2 "2016-05-18T15:15:42Z")
It’s not Discourse that is doing it but your mail client 😉
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### Author:  [@thomasschmit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thomasschmit)
#### Post date: [2016年五月18日 15:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440/3 "2016-05-18T15:45:13Z")
Really? I use Gmail and when I look at the sent messages, there is no line breaks.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [2016年五月18日 16:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440/4 "2016-05-18T16:20:10Z")
> [@thomasschmit](#):
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> when I look at the sent messages, there is no line breaks.
They aren’t so easily seen.
Some OS use “\r” some “\n” some “\r\n”
This can be fixed with “replace” code. But I don’t know if that’s what’s happening here.
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### Author:  [@thomasschmit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thomasschmit)
#### Post date: [2016年五月19日 14:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440/5 "2016-05-19T14:06:58Z")
Hum… When I look at the source of my mails, there is indeed line breaks in the plain text version.
Is Discourse using this one rather than the HTML one, which may then be parsed in Markdown?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2016年五月19日 15:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440/6 "2016-05-19T15:04:23Z")
> [@thomasschmit](#):
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> Is Discourse using this one rather than the HTML one, which may then be parsed in Markdown?
That’s exactly what’s happening (we always prefer the text version to the HTML version).
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2017年五月5日 07:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440/7 "2017-05-05T07:47:41Z")
This is changing, we will begin to prefer HTML version as the line break problem is impossible otherwise.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2019年六月2日 06:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440/8 "2019-06-02T06:32:40Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2019年六月5日 04:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440/9 "2019-06-05T04:47:09Z")
I still see a similar issue regularly here:
> **[Consistent attribute syntax](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/consistent-attribute-syntax/272/130)**
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> I wonder what is the advantage of putting the attribute block after the block? I would personally follow “Beyond Markdown” recommendation and put them before the block and for inline I would leave them after The main reason for this...
I wonder if the folks at commonmark should just go ahead and just enable `traditional markdown linebreaks` though.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2022年十一月3日 11:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440/10 "2022-11-03T11:31:49Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [2023年二月28日 11:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440/11 "2023-02-28T11:01:50Z")