The short answer is that that message's quoted-printable encoding is broken.
With quoted-printable, lines must be shorter than something like 80 characters (I don't recall the precise value right now). When lines are longer, "soft" line breaks must be used. So, what you are seeing here is a manifestation of the "garbage in => garbage out" principle. (I'm wondering if there's just a single MUST in the MIME RFCs left over which is not violated by either commercially available e-mail software, or spam. *sigh*) -- Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 2002-02-11 12:33:53 -0500, Philip Mak wrote: >From: Philip Mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:33:53 -0500 >Subject: Re: People who don't wrap their lines >User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i > >On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:43:58PM -0500, Philip Mak wrote: >> I'm having trouble reading messages from people who don't wrap their >> lines. They have it so that one paragraph is a very long line, but it >> seems to cut off after about 255 characters, i.e. I can only see the >> first 255 characters of each line in the pager. > >See attached message, which is an example of a message that causes >this problem in mutt. I couldn't use the [f]orward command to send it, >because the forwarded message had the lines chopped! I had to save the >message to a file and attach it in order to get it through unmangled. >I also had to gzip it so that the [EMAIL PROTECTED] filter wouldn't >stop it since it has HTML in it.
