[Gllug] email from 'Outlook'

[Doug Winter]

t.clarke wrote:
> I am sure someone must have asked this before - so apologies in advance.
> 
> We are getting emails for certain customers, which we read on dumb terminals,
> where each word in the email is separated by '=20' instead of a space.
> The email-encoding is described as quoted-printable.
> 
> My limited understanding of quoted-printed encoding is that it should only
> encode non-ascii characters nand any FINAL trailing space where trailing
> spaces need to be preserved - spaces between words should not therefore be
> encoded.
> 
> Does anyone know - is this a bug in Outlook or a simple case of configuration.

Although there's no reason to encode intervening spaces, I don't believe 
there's any rules against it.  Why are you viewing the emails undecoded? 
  Surely you can use mutt or something?

doug.


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