# Line breaks when replying via email

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 18, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440 "2016-05-18T14:16:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![thomasschmit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thomasschmit/32/115917_2.png) [@thomasschmit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thomasschmit)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-breaks-when-replying-via-email/44440/5 "2016-05-19T14:06:58Z")

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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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