Craig Vespe wrote:
 
>  OK mail gurus, why do I get some mail with the text "=3D" or "=20"
>  interspersed in various messages?  Is it the mailer, my mail reader,
>  8 bit codes, viewing the screen at the wrong angle?
 
I'm not a guru (and I don't play one on TV), but I _do_ know what the
'=xx' are.  They're MIME hex codes.  In general, when non-printing
text appears in a message, it is replaced with '=xx', where 'xx' is
the hex representation of the offending character.  Since '=' now has
special significance, real "=" bytes must be replaced with "=3D".
When a line ends with a trailing blank, the blank gets replaced with
"=20".
 
In my mail client, rmail inside emacs, by default I see the '=xx'
codes as you do.  I've got a MIME filter, though, that converts the
text to a cleaner picture when I need to see it.  You might check to
see if your mailer can figure this out.
 
BTW, there should be a "Content-Transfer-Encoding" header with your
mail that identifies it as (I think) "quoted-printable".
 
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Randy Medd
Telamon, Inc.