MailMessage sent string as body without newline in outlook

Question

HI, I am trying to send a simple notification using system.net.mail.mailmessage. I just pass the string as the message body. But problem is even though multi-line message been send have the correct "\r\n" format info in string. The mail opened in outlook will displayed as a long single line. But view source in outlook will display the message with correct new line format.

For example: original message would looks like:

line1
line 2
line 3

But it will displayed in Outlook like:

line1 line 2 line 3

View source from outlook will still display

line1
line 2
line 3

What should I do to make outlook display the message with correct newline information?

Answer 1

//the email body should be HTML //replaces the new line characters \n\r with the break HTML

mailMsg.IsBodyHtml = true;
mailMsg.Body = this.Body;
mailMsg.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII;
mailMsg.Body = mailMsg.Body.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "<br/>");