Ronald F Guilmette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But why is it that MS mail clients are the only ones that seem to
> generate messages as ``MIME quotable'' (rather than plain text), even
> when not explicitly asked to do so?
Probably because none of their mail servers can handle 8bit characters. :)
To add more information for the original question asker, that stuff
appears on the end of lines if the lines are over 70 characters (MIME
usually decides to wrap about there) or if they contain any trailing
whitespace (in which case escaping it is required with quoted-printable).
All =s in the message also have to be escaped.
The complete gibberish is caused by using Base64 encoding, which should
really *never* be used for text/plain and similar content types, but which
some really broken MIME generators use anyway. Particularly if there are
any high-bit characters.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
