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". ------------ Randy Medd Telamon, Inc.