HTML email does not recognize newline

[eluser]jules123[/eluser]
Actually, I have a central email function (defined in a helper) that I use from everywhere to send emails. So it is very easy for me to check the mailtype and do the replacement inside this function.

My problem however is - how do I retrieve the mailtype configuration in this helper function? If I do the following -
$mail_type = $this->config->item('mailtype');
This gives me an empty string instead of giving the actual setting from the config/email.php file.

Now, I can repeat the mailtype setting in my custom config file, as say $config['mailtype_repeat'] = 'html'; and get it that way, but I would hate to do the repetition...