How do I get Outlook to stop removing "extra line breaks"?

[mrpy]

I send and receive a fair amount of poetry by e-mail.

Outlook has never heard of poetry. Like a tyrant, whenever it gets a
plain-text poem, it removes the line break every time a line of poetry ends
with something other than end-punctuation. The result is a garble of what
looks like badly-formatted prose. At the top, where the headers are, there's
a helpful note that "extra line breaks have been removed." If you click on
it, you can restore the line breaks. But I have to take this affirmative
step every time I wish to turn garble-prose back into poetry.

What I want to know is: can I reverse this default? Can I make it give me
messages formatted exactly as they were when sent, and then let me tell it to
remove "extra" line breaks if I determine that I really am reading prose?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Tools | Options | E-mail Options -- Remove extra line breaks in plain text
messages

When you send poetry, indent each line three or more spaces. That will tell
a receiving copy of Outlook not to mess with the line breaks.