RE: Decode e-mail?

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like quoted-printable encoding...  =3D would be inserted where it
wants ASCII x'3D' to be inserted.  Other =XX codes can also be inserted,
where XX is the hex ASCII code to insert.  If the last character of a line
is "=" then the line should be joined with the next line before displaying
it to a user...

A properly formatted e-mail document will say that the body is
quoted-printable in the heading for the e-mail body.  There are, however,
many e-mails that are not properly formatted and do not properly list the
body as quoted-printable. :(

The official resource on the format of an E-mail body is RFC 2045.  If you
skip down to section 6.7, you'll get a detailed description of how
quoted-printable works.  Here's a link to the RFC:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2045.html



On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Metz, Zak wrote:

> Thank Philipp, I recognized that. What's throwing me is the sporadic
> "3D"s and missing closing double quotes (which do appear in when the
> mail is downloaded to the client).
>