Re: Funny Parsing of E-mail Lines

["John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>]

Michael Edmiston wrote:
> Ever since we switched to a different e-mail system at Bluffton College,
> things I send to the phys-l list come back to me with lines wrapped in the
> middle of words (rather than between words) and with an equal sign (=) at
> the end of each line.
>
> (1) Are you all seeing this in my messages, or is it just the copy that
> comes back to me?

It isn't a problem for me.

> (2) Does anyone know what is going on?
>
> Our college e-mail server is now accessed locally under Microsoft Exchange
> protocol whereas before we accessed it as POP3.

Well, it looks like you've answered your own question.
The problem is that Monoposoft Exchange encodes things
incorrectly.  And then it's too dumb to decode its own
encoding.

Suggestions:

1) Kludge: If you can find an option called "quoted printable"
try turning it off.

2) Also, try formatting the lines to less than 70 characters
each, before Exchange gets its hands on it.  Doing this by
hand is revolting;  you'd think a 1GHz computer would be
smart enough to do this all by itself.....

  http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/mime-style.html

3) Get some decent software.  Decent mail software is available
from many sources, for free or nearly-free.  Many people like
Eudora;  the "light" version was still free the last time I looked.