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How do I add line break in PHP mail function?

I am having one string which is of near about 100 lines which is similar to this

My name is John. rn I am a boy. rn I am so in so

Here the above string is coming from backed so when I send mail using PHP mail function it should output as below.

My name is John.
I am a boy.
I am so in so

But unfortunately it give this output to me.

My name is John. I am a boy. I am so in so

The method I am using is similar to this.

$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0rn";
$header .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8rn";
$msg = "Above Str";
mail(to@user, Subject, $msg, $header);

Can anyone help to do make this proper so.

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  1. 0

    You specified Content-type: text/html, so the body of your e-mail message is a HTML document. As such, just like when building a regular webpage, newlines themselves have no visible effect.

    Use either paragraphs (<p>...</p>) or <br> to get the result you’re after.

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  2. 0

    You can try using PHP’s nl2br() function to convert the line breaks in the string to HTML line breaks before sending the email:

    $header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0rn";
$header .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8rn";
$msg = nl2br('Above Str');
mail('to@user', 'Subject', $msg, $header);

    This will convert the rn line breaks in the string to HTML line breaks
    before sending the email.

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  3. 0

    This

    $header .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8rn";

    is telling the client to render it as HTML, where line breaks aren’t rendered.

    If you want it as HTML, you can try:

    $msg = nl2br($theString);

    to convert line breaks to HTML <br />.

    If you want the clients to render it as text, not HTML, change the content type to text/plain:

    $header .= "Content-type:text/plain;charset=UTF-8rn";
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  4. 0

    for this type of output, u need to just create a separate page and add all content that you want to send over the mail.
    then
    $msg = Load page;
    then call or load your that page here and your code will start working try it

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