Assuming that your file has records terminated with carriage-return line-feed, we can probably eliminate the format of the file.
There is a little-known "feature" of Microsoft Outlook where a default changed at Outlook 2003 and has been wrong ever since:
From Outlook:
Tools / Options / Preferences /E-mail Options
Uncheck "Remove extra line breaks in plain text messages".
That seems to have fixed the issue. Thanks
"Have I told you lately how much I dislike Windows?"
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
We frequently see our exchange server try to dink with carriage control in messages from unix. A common exchange notification when you open the message is:
"extra line breaks in this message were removed" in a blue band at the email head.
Clicking on the band resores the "extra" line breaks.
and we have lines that were separate globbed together by exchange, just like in your example. This appears to be your problem, too. We get arround it:
Exchange does not mess with those attachments.
More of a UNIX-side solution
I've used that solution before and while I prefer something I can control from the *nix side, I also prefer - for these jobs - to just dump the log into the body of the mail instead of an attachment.
Also, I really was curious about the cause and not just a work-around without understanding what was really going on. Looks like another find MS "feature". It's really amazing how often I search for a solution to some Windows issue and find that people have been finding and reporting the same issue through multiple versions of Windows for several years and MS still has no answer.
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