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KMail adding "=20" to end of each line?


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Weird thing that I don't know if anyone here has run into. There are a couple guys in my LUG that are using KMail and every one of their emails appends "=20" (no quotes) to the end of each line. I'm guessing they've discussed it in the past as I heard one guy trying to change email clients but had issues so had to revert to KMail and live with the =20 problem. I didn't bother to bring it up with them as I figure they've discussed it to no end. Anyone here experienced it or figured out a workaround?

Not to try to start anything, but that bugtoaster site doesn't say=20much...  It says Windows boxes have crashes, but that's it... I think=20everybody and their dog knows that.  It doesn't say what the computers=20are doing when they crash, or anything else related.  I think the=20average of 15-21 crashes per box in a 24 hour period is a bit high... =20I've never seen a computer (let alone an average) showing that a=20computer crashes once an hour.Also...  this story about harddrives running MS systems dying is=20something I'd like to see... I can't say I've ever heard of a difference =in harddrive wear between Windows/Linux.=20
I don't want to bother with what's posted in this example email, but it was the only one I currently had that exhibited the problem...I'd be a real hero if there was a fix to this. :lol: :D
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Isn't it only on forwarded messages or something like that?? - omg I have seen this before and I can not remember where or what - I will go bang head for a while and see if I can't jar it into memory, omg I've this before, but what...........

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RyanCould it be that they are sending the messages as ¨text¨ and you´re recieving them as HTML ? It looks link ¨end or the line¨ signs . . . . . those are interpreted different in HTML then in text . . . . as long as you would use Kmail as well and recieve the messages in text, you would probably not see those =20 . . . . . . I suspect you open the messages in OE as HTML . . . :):) Bruno

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Ryan,It sounds like some Kmail users are using "quoted-printable" (mime-compliant), rather than "allow 8-bit" in their settings. They might try changing it to see if it has any effect.settings/configure kmail/network/message property -- toggle between "allow 8-bit" and "MIME compliant (quoted-printable)".HTHtranquilo

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Bruno... how dare you accuse me of using OE? B) I'm a T-bird user all the way! (Both in Win and Mandrake)... :lol:

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Ryan, My dear friend, what the ***** was I thinking ?? I´m terribly sorry . . . of course you are using Thunderbrd as=20 email client . . .that was really stupid of me, please forgive me.=20 Sure I can use the excuse that it was still early in the morning=20 when I wrote that post and that the cat was scratching my=20 chair because she was hungry, the postman just brought=20 a letter from my broker that my MS stocks had dropped=20 again and I was to late to buy the SCO stocks when they were=20 low . . . . :lol: But there is no excuse for such a catastophic mistake . . . =180 One thing though . . . you make it sound if there would be=20 something wrong with OE . . .some of my best and coolest=20 friends are using OE . . and there certainly is nothing wrong=20 with them. :D B) :D Bruno=78

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I just thought it remnded me of the 20% you get when someone accidentally puts a space in a web address they create. Something about the internet and spaces. It looks like my html book is at school. Could it be the code for a enter key entry? Of course, you probably have it fixed now with all the wonderful advice you get here.Poor Bruno - such a slip. Have you begged forgiveness enough yet? A cat? Do penguins and cats mix?????? B)

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Thanks tranquilo for the suggestion, but the guy said he's been using 8-bit for a long time and that wasn't the issue... I tried receving his last message as text instead of HTML (Tbird gives me the option), but it didn't matter...Here's his response:

I've always used "allow 8 bit" and the problem remains.=2D-=20=2DGrayGeek
Don't know where the =2D came from... Maybe he needs to upgrade to KMail 3D? :lol: :D Of course then he'd need those stupid glasses! B)
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Nothing... and one guy says it only does it to our mailing list...Most of them don't seem to care too much about it anymore... It's just annoying to me I guess :)

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RyanA suggestion:There really are other email programs out there. Try Evolution. (I'm sorry I know this is hard to hear :) )

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Have a suggestion as well:Because they are send by Kmail . . .what happens if you receive them in Kmail ( in text-format ) ??:) Bruno

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Hexadecimal code uses a 20 as a space. Logic would say it is a carriage return. However, hexadecimal I believe are the ones that start wtih a equal sign. I don't think you are going to find a solution but you can do a google for =20 and code and see what you come up with!
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