The trailing = is usually caused by the text encoding of "quoted Printable"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable ~Barton On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 7:27 PM, Yubin Ruan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 02:06:35PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: >> On 02Feb2018 10:25, Yubin Ruan <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I try to save a multipart/alternative attachment to file but all the >> > content >> > seems to be messed up. When view in a pager, it look good: >> > >> > -------------------------------- >> > LinkedIn Highlights >> > >> > Should I tell coworkers my salary? >> > >> > 264 people are talking about this >> > >> > https://www.linkedin.com/comm/search/results/content/?keywords=Should+I+tell+coworkers+my+salary%3F&origin=FED_EMAIL&anchorTopic=506458&midToken=AQFSR-6AohV2qQ&trk=eml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-hero-1-null&trkEmail=eml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-hero-1-null-null-6mvow3%7Ejd475j9d%7Ey4-null-neptune%2Fsearch%2Eresults%2Econtent&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Aemail_email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01%3BrxyHuw3NTWi4n8fHNW81ig%3D%3D >> > --------------------------------- >> > >> > However, when saved to a file, it become: >> > (which is the same as in editor when you press 'e' to edit the email) >> > >> > ------------------------------------ >> > LinkedIn Highlights >> > >> > Should I tell coworkers my salary? >> > >> > 264 people are talking about this >> > >> > https://www.linkedin.com/comm/search/results/content/?keywords=3DShould+I+t= >> > ell+coworkers+my+salary%3F&origin=3DFED_EMAIL&anchorTopic=3D506458&midToken= >> > =3DAQFSR-6AohV2qQ&trk=3Deml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-hero-1-null&trkE= >> > mail=3Deml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-hero-1-null-null-6mvow3%7Ejd475j9= >> > d%7Ey4-null-neptune%2Fsearch%2Eresults%2Econtent&lipi=3Durn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ae= >> > mail_email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01%3BrxyHuw3NTWi4n8fHNW81ig%3D%3D >> > >> > =20 >> > ----------------------------------- >> > >> > I know the tailing = at the end is to enable the pager to prettify thing. >> > But >> > can we save directly from the pager? >> >> I don't think this is anything to do with locales. >> >> I'm presuming you're talking about saving something from the attachment >> menu? And not about saving a message complete. >> >> What you show above is interesting. >> >> It looks to me like the second version, the folded lines ending in "=", is >> quoted-printable, which encoded most ASCII range text as itself, with escape >> sequences for various bytes not in the common lower range and of course for >> the escape character "=" itself. Its purpose it to get text through various >> systems undamaged while keeping it visually fairly readable. >> >> Normally, that would be the attachment's Content-Transfer-Encoding, which I >> would expect to be decoded on save, because the attachment is no longer >> enclosed in a mail message structure. >> >> Apparently not the case. >> >> Can you describe _exactly_ what procedure your went through to save this >> message, from the index view (list of message titels/authors only) through >> to saving the file? So that we can reproduce what you've done and understand >> it? > > Procedure: > 1. enter the attachment view using 'v' > 2. go the attachment you want to save, > 3. press 's', which will prompt you for a file name to save the file with > > FYI: those tailing = are not generated by Mutt. I am using Gmail, and through > Gmail's web interface I can confirm that the original mail already have those > tailing = . > > -- > Yubin
