It's a MUA issue, I've seen it before.  What happens is that some
clients replace, or what they like to call "encoding", white-space or
other items with "=<hex value>" (0x20 is hex for a space).  It's a
really bad "encoding scheme".

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Dustin Puryear wrote:
> That's for EVERY email? Weird. If memory serves, that's a MIME parsing
> issue, but I could be wrong. Ronnie?
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> Fernando Vilas wrote:
>   
>> Back to technical topics...  Whenever I pull my LSU email via POP, with 
>> fetchmail, or on PAWS, it has an = inserted before every newline, and 
>> randomly, =20 or 3D scattered in the email.  Is there a setting that I 
>> should 
>> be looking at to fix this, or should I just add a sed filter to 
>> my .procmailrc on my home server?
>>
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