On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Frank Rizulo wrote:
> What does the symbols "=" and "=20" mean at the end of a line.
> Recently all the messages sent out by my server to a particular site
> have these symbols after every other line. Also, many lines are being
> broken after just with one word with the "=" at the end of the line.
> Can it be this particular sites gateway that is causing this? Any
> other ideas?
The two codes means soft line break and space character, respectively, in
the quoted-printable transfer-encoding (see mail header of such a mail).
I guess that such a mail contains high octetts, that is, non-ascii
characters. Your mail server program (sendmail?) is configured for ESMTP
mail transfer (extension of SMTP). The other site does not understand
ESMTP or refuses to accept 8 bit mail bodies. Your server is (correctly)
configured to encode mail bodies to such remote servers.
If your server does not have direct contact with remote server it could be
the intermediate server doing the encoding.
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Mats Dufberg Mats.Dufberg@abc.se
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From: "Frank Rizulo" <RIZULOF@newschool.edu>
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