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

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> 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?

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

    Roman> Try pop-ing from some other server.

Or analyze your message headers to see if the message has been
quoted-printable encoded and perform the proper decoding.  I can't imagine
that a robust POP server would quoted-printable encode a message without
noting that fact somewhere.

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