Introduction
Exclamation character getting inserted in body of mail messages sent programmatically using CDO object.
Cause:This is happening because RFC 2822 places limits on the number of characters in a line. According to section 2.1.1 of RFC 2822 (document attached), lines in a message MUST be a maximum of 998 characters excluding the CRLF. If the number of characters in a line exceeds the limit, exclamation mark followed by CRLF character gets inserted automatically in the message body.
Solution: While forming body text, if we append line feed character after every nth (n < 998) character or so, then this problem will get resolved. ‘Char(10)’ can be used in SQL 2000 stored procedures as a line feed character.
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