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

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

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?

Decode it using the quopri module.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio at openservices.net>