PHP email message line breaks

Mine won't break?

[m2c1r]

This could easily be (probably is) something simple, but I can't get any line breaks to show up in my outgoing php emails.

I've tried

$message = " blah blah\n blah blah ";

and

$message = " blah blah\r\n blah blah ";

neither of which is working.

What am I doing wrong (besides knowing next to nothing about writing php files)?

[dreamcatcher]

Are you doing HTML formatted e-mails or plain text? If HTML, you`ll need a HTML line break.

$message = " blah blah<br>blah blah ";

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