On 3/28/2011 6:20 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:55 -0400, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > >> Apparently not everyone who uses kmail has the problem. >> Maybe it's the people who use html mail? >> Neil Bothwick's posts often have the "==20", but usually just one or >> two. Some posts are positively riddled with them, to the point of >> being terribly difficult to parse. >> Everytime I look at the headers of such a post it says kmail, but >> not every kmail user has the problem. > > That's intriguing, considering it's been many years since I used > KMail. > > The =20 is usually caused by a quoted-printable message, meaning either > your newsreader cannot handle quoted-printable or the mail-to-news > gateway is screwing it up.
It's not KMail, it's your OpenPGP signature. Attaching the signature switches your mail from text/plain to multipart/signed, and the mail client switches to quoted-printable for the text part of the message. However, there does seem to be some kind of problem with the mail-to-news gateway. The quoted-printable "soft-return" sequence is =20, but it's being turned into "==20" somewhere along the way. slrn *does* support quoted-printable messages, if they were well-formed quoted printable :) For reference, this is what your mail looks like coming over SMTP; note the lack of "==20" anywhere: --Sig_/TRElrs3oa099GBUkPVLmB/I Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:55 -0400, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > Apparently not everyone who uses kmail has the problem. > Maybe it's the people who use html mail? > Neil Bothwick's posts often have the "=3D=3D20", but usually just one or > two. Some posts are positively riddled with them, to the point of=20 > being terribly difficult to parse. > Everytime I look at the headers of such a post it says kmail, but=20 > not every kmail user has the problem.=20 That's intriguing, considering it's been many years since I used KMail. The =3D20 is usually caused by a quoted-printable message, meaning either your newsreader cannot handle quoted-printable or the mail-to-news gateway is screwing it up. --=20 Neil Bothwick
