Subject: "=20" at end of lines

From: [email-masked] (PNEWS)
Date: 25 Mar 1995 04:47:32 GMT

Subject: "=20" end of line characters

In not all but in some of the text sent out over a mailing list for which 
I use a mail alias I get these funny end of line "=20" characters. I 
don't see them at another site where I also use PINE, but others have 
mentioned it. Curiously it only occurs occasionally. Reformatting seems 
to help somewhat but not entirely.. Is this something I can compensate 
for or is it a MIME incompatability at the receiver's site? Any ideas?

Hank Roth
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Alan J Flavell)
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 11:11:21 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
[email-masked] (PNEWS) writes:
 
>I use a mail alias I get these funny end of line "=20" characters.
 
Trailing space(s) when mail is transmitted in qp mode.  But if the
recipient is using a MIME-compatible reader they will not see these.
qp encoding is only seen by s/one viewing the raw MIME.
 
>              Curiously it only occurs occasionally.
 
Trailing space(s) alone would not cause PINE to use QP encoding,
I think.  But if it uses qp encoding for some other reason, it
will encode trailing spaces in this way.
 
>                                    Is this something I can compensate
>for
 
Don't do whatever it is that you are doing to put PINE into qp mode ;-)
Somewhere in that MIME is likely to be some other =xx encoding or
other reason for PINE to have chosen to use qp encoding.
 
>or is it a MIME incompatability at the receiver's site?
 
Sounds as if the receiver does not use a MIME-compatible mail
client.
 
>Any ideas?
 
Please don't say that, it's so irritating!  We all have ideas,
some are more practical than others...
 
have fun