Subject: Re: "=20" at end of lines

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

In article <[email-masked]>
[email-masked] (PNEWS) writes:
 
>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.
 
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

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From: Vladimir Solnicky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 11:06:21 +0200 (METDST)

> qp encoding is only seen by s/one viewing the raw MIME.

Unfortunately I also saw some mailing lists processors removing the 
header line ``MIME-Version: 1.0''. Than a MIME-aware mail reader doesn't 
help I think ...

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