But I thought he said it happens even if he does a 'less' on the email file?

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Ronnie Gilkey wrote:
> 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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