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Re: CHAT: Corrupt messages (was CHAT: Doug Ball, PhD)

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Saturday, December 13, 2008, 14:51
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 15:40, David McCann <david@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-12 at 17:46 -0500, Roger Mills wrote: >> This (though not all msgs) comes back to me with the line breaks suppressed= >> . . Carsten B. has also complained to me about it. Is this happening for o= >> thers? I can't find any way in my good ol' Hotmail interface to correct it= >> .= > All sorts of strange things happen to my messages. If the quotation is > transmitted correctly, it should include lost of stray ='s.
That sounds as if the messages are sent with Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable, and your email client doesn't support this. (Or Roger's email client doesn't say that it's using QP even though it is.)
> Another > message includes > > Although my interest in languages and conlanging ultimately led me to a > deg= > ree in linguistics=2C my conlanging serves no professional purpose. > =20
Ditto with quoted-printable. (Or, as I've seen it called occasionally, quoted-unreadable, though I think that's only justified if you actually see it rather than having your email client handle it for you behind the scenes.)
> and yet another > > T24gRnJpLCBEZWMgMTIsIDIwMDggYXQgNTozNyBQTSwgUm9nZXIgTWlsbHMgPHJmbWlsbHlAbXNu
And that sounds like Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64. Which email client are you using, David? Is there an upgrade availablet that will handle MIME formatted messages (specifically, those that use quoted-printable and base64 Content-Transfer-Encoding?) Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>