EMAIL Format in UNIX

Hi ,

Need help of Email Format

I have TEST .txt file which contains below data

/home/a.DAT File Not received 
/home/a.CTL File Not received 
/home/b.DAT File Not received 
/home/b.CTL File Not received 

i am using below command to send mail

mail -s "ERROR: files" $MAIL_LIST < $MAIL_FILE

i am able to get mail in below format with side by side , i need mail as which is above format

/home/a.DAT File Not received  /home/a.CTLFile Not received /home/b.DAT File Not received /home/b.CTL File Not received

Does this make a difference?

sed 's/$/\r/' $MAIL_FILE | mail -s "ERROR: files" $MAIL_LIST

Thanks for the reply... i am stilling receiving mail as side by side

Should work on *nix mail clients. What client are you using?

If outlook, click the "restore line-breaks" link when viewing the message.

If outlook, often the only way you can get text to actually appear as it was sent is to wrap in html <pre> tags or make it a txt file attachment.

Just to clarify, by 'side by side' are you trying to say that the four lines are combined into one without CR/LF (carriage return and line feed) characters?
This may make it easier to understand your problem.