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?

Entirely possible, it's just aggravating that a Hotmail 'undocumented feature' starts doing this. There's a thread about this and similar Hotmail glitches at http://windowslivehelp.com/community/p/132914/512755.aspx

May have to consider migration - I just have so much stuff archived that I don't want to lose access to because of some improvement in Eudora 8.