eric@lucii.org on Mon, 7 Oct 2002 22:14:20 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] what is this format?


Okay, that makes sense.   Mutt does NOT show it to me unless
I hit "e" to edit the message.  I do this when the message does
not wrap lines and it's difficult to read or when I want to
forward it reformatted.
 
I'll have to find a program that I can run the text through
to "clean it up" before I reformat it.  

Thanks.

Eric




On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:08:20PM -0400, Jeff Weisberg wrote:
> 
> 
> | The equals at the end of each line and the extra characters (=20 for
> | example) prevents me from using some easy reformatting techniques and
> | forces me to edit each line independently.
> | 
> | What is this format?  I believe that "=20" is an ascii 20 (space) but I
> | don't know.  I end up saving it as text (from mutt) and then importing
> | it into a new message.  That's okay if I want to resend it but sometimes
> | I just want to reformat it and save it.  
> 
> 
> it is "quoted-printable" encoding. MIME capable mail software
> will (should) encode and decode this transparently to you.
> 
> If you are using MIME capable software (such as mutt), and you
> see this, something, somewhere, is broken.
> 
> 
> 	--jeff
> 
> 
> see also:
> 	RFC 2045 - MIME (in particular section 6)


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