A few recent (past week or 10 days) Hotmail messages received have linefeed and similar characters inserted as thus:

=20

Many thanks=2C=20

=20

Fay=20 =20

Of course, that occurs throughout the message. It appears a linefeed is '=', a comma is =2c, and an enter is =20. It also graces me with header crap like:

5.1.0.14.2.20090915090339.026f7ec0@pop.<mydomain.com.au>

5.1.0.14.2.20090917085600.026f8ba0@pop.<mydomain.com.au>

SNT115-W4263CDB907BAAA6073951FD4D90@phx.gbl

5.1.0.14.2.20090925122657.029176b0@127.0.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0

--65ba6bae-7535-4145-ba45-ce6c609d822a Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

before I get the message.

As well, PDF attachments end up as a bazillion screens of code. I had one customer resend to our Gmail address, and it all came through cleanly, including the PDF attachment. I forwarded that to my domain account, and all was well.

It has just begun, and it's a major nuisance when I have to wade through the pseudo-punctuation and miss out on the attachment.

My email client is Eudora 5 (yeah, old)running under W98SE (stop laughing!). It's set up as MIME encoding for attachments. I have AvastAV on board, and it occurs both with and without the mail screening enabled.

I've been using this (except for Avast, just installed yesterday) happily all day every day for the past 7 years, and this latest (apparently) Hotmail-related gag is irritating.

Was there a memo I missed? Who will rid me of this troublesome email?

Found the solution!!!!

Download the Eudora plugin "Quoted Printable Encoder/Decoder " from http://e-gadgets.freehostia.com/plugins.htm

Copy the qp.dll to the plugins directory and Bob's your Uncle!

You can decode old messages with this too.

Glad I found this - like you, it has just cropped up and was driving me crackers.

Hotmail decoded!

I salute you! It works. Now all we have to figure out is WHY Mr Hotmail decided to start 'improving' things...

Frustration!!!

Sadly we are having the same problem on XP SP3 Eudora 7.1.0.9

We have downloaded the dll and the plugin is confirmed to be present (checked by selecting message plug-ins settings from the special menu)

Yet the corruption remains the same...

We have identified though hotmail mails to us are fine, it's only when we reply to them and they then reply back we get the problem...

Any ideas would be very much appreciated

Regards

It's a bug in Hotmail. They're corrupting the header block by putting an extra carriage return in the References: line when there's more than one reference (i.e. a reply to a reply). So the quoted-printable header is (correctly) being interpreted by the receiving client as being part of the message body.

After I made about a dozen posts to the Windows Live help forum, and got lots of useless replies from first line helpbots, someone named mike who apparently works on the Hotmail engineering team said he filed a bug about this. But he says it will be a while until they release a fix. See http://windowslivehelp.com/community/p/132914/512755.aspx .

... or as they like to put it, an undocumented feature

Thanks again for your persistence - good to know it WASN'T me or my system, just good ol' Hotmail making the world safer for democracy. Still have to get customers to send to our Gmail account if they've attached an image, though.

Possibly cured??

For the past couple of weeks, Hotmail msgs have been coming through correctly - I haven't done anything except utter expletives, so --- Hotmail got fixed?!? Golllleee! Fingers are still crossed, though.

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