&gt; Sometimes emails have &quot;&lt;br&gt;&quot; in them and sometimes they have &quot;\n&quot;.<p>One of those should have an HTML MIME type, one should have a plaintext MIME type. The decoding is specified in detail in RFCs and W3C recommendations, please follow those rather than try to implement this using try and error.<p>&gt; Not everyone uses the RFC standards!<p>That is unfortunately true, ...<p>&gt; I thought the RFC said that a subject can only be 78 chars long.<p>... and one of the major reasons why is because people think but don&#x27;t read. There exist all kinds of crazy myths about the content of RFCs, which is how all those broken implementations arise, this seems to be one of them--but feel free to point out which RFC says this where, in case I really have missed it.