Have you tried with icedove (or more specific icedove 3.0.2) maybe it is a problem with icedove? Your example does not work for me, it is all one word.
Cheers, Bastian On 21.03.2010 13:52, Per Olofsson wrote: > Hi, > > 2010-03-21 01:04, Bastian Venthur skrev: >> according to the manpage of xdg-email the --body text may contain >> newlines, but this does not work anymore. I tested only with icedove, it >> used to work a few weeks ago. >> >> Easy to reproduce: >> >> xdg-email --body "this is\na test" >> >> with icedove 3.0.2 set as default MUA. > > It says the body may contain newlines, but it says nothing about "\n", > which is an escape sequence. > > This works for me: > > xdg-email --body 'foo > bar' > > or: > > xdg-email --body "$(printf foo\\nbar)" > -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
