lib/PublicInbox/View.pm | 6 +++++-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index 5870c9d1ad3099ca857f0ab2d6966a2f16cf95d9..860663111fb00a7e1551c5c663657ca977a09c20 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@
 # public functions:
 sub msg_html {
 	my ($class, $mime, $full_pfx, $footer) = @_;
-	$footer = '' unless defined $footer;
+	if (defined $footer) {
+		$footer = "\n" . $footer;
+	} else {
+		$footer = '';
+	}
 	headers_to_html_header($mime, $full_pfx) .
 		multipart_text_as_html($mime, $full_pfx) .
 		'</pre><hr /><pre>' .