dawidd6/action-send-mail

html_body: loss of formatting

andybeet opened this issue · 2 comments

andybeet commented

Firstly this action is great! Works like a charm.

The only quirk i can't figure out is the "html_body" or "body" keyword usage

I have a plain txt file (datapull.txt) that i am using as the html_body. It just has a few lines, each one with a carriage return (\n). I have tried with line feed (\r) also

I use the following in the yml

html_body: file://${{github.workspace}}/data-raw/datapull.txt

However when i receive the email the body of the txt file comes through as a single line with all carriage returns ignored. Is this because the html_body is expecting an html file?

How can i pass a txt file and preserve carriage returns/line feeds?

dawidd6 commented

If the file isn't html, then use body input.

andybeet commented

Thanks, I tried that but it still doesn't preserve the LF/CR.
It simply returns one long string

EDIT: I was wrong. It does work. Thanks