POP3 messages: '=' always followed by '3D'?

[Roman Suzi]

On 20 Sep 2001, Steve Canfield wrote:

>I'm using poplib to retrieve email messages.  Whenever the text of the
>message contains an equals sign, it is always followed by '3D'.  Why
>is this?  To get the original text, do I have to do a
>search-and-replace operation on every line to convert '=3D' to '='?
>
>For example, if the message contains this:
>  <abc def='ghi'>
>it will be retrieved as:
>  <abc def=3D'ghi'>
>
>Am I missing something painfully obvious here?  Any suggestions for a
>easy and fast way to fix this?

"=3D" is quoted-printable for "=". For some reason, your mail server
quotes "=" this way... I doubt it's poplib, because poplib do not
need to escape "=" in message body.

Try pop-ing from some other server.

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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