Email wrapping issue (\n does not move content to new line)- outlook

i had to generate and send an email with multiple lines in plain text format, the problem i was facing is peculiar, if i use a single \n or \r\n the line doesn't get wrapped but if i use two new line characters the lines are seperated by two blank lines :S

I found that this is due to a strange behavior of outlook whereby if any content follows a period(i had a *), outlook considers it as the start of new statement and adds the next line to current line!

it works perfectly in other email clients...