The folks from whom I am receiving these messages are folks I have been
coreesponding with for years. Outlook Express didn't have this problem; this
only appeared when I ported my accoutns from OLE2000 to Outlook 2003. Seems
like this would nbe a configuration problem on my end, assuming that all
these correspondents didn't simultaneously change *their* configurations.

Thanks, Brian!

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Chip wrote:

I have a new installation of Office 2003 Student Edition on an
eMachine computer. Since installing Outlook 2003, messages that I
receive sometimes display with extra characters (like "=20" where
carriage returns would normally appear). I assume I have a setting
incorrectly set, but I have searched high and low and have no idea
what I could change. A related problem is that I am gettting
messages twice in the same email: once in plain text (sometimes with
those pesky "=20" interspersed), followed by the same message with
the HTML code printed out in plain text.

The messages you are receiving are malformed enough that Outlook isn't
properly recognizing the quoted-printable MIME encoding. The =20 string
signifies a space character and is properly interpreted as such if the
message is properly formed.
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Brian Tillman