Re: Weird quoted-printable messages from Outlook
* Gary Johnson <garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I realize this a mutt-users' list, not an Outlook-users' list, but I
> thought I might find someone here knowledgeable about Outlook
> oddities and how to fix or work around them.
>
> I've been receiving a lot of messages from Outlook users in the last
> year or so that contain extra blank lines. For example, the
> greeting is separated from the first paragraph by three blank lines
> instead of the usual one; paragraphs are separated from each other
> by three blank lines instead of one; signature blocks are double-
> spaced rather than single-spaced.
>
> The MIME structure of the all the messages is like this example from
> mutt's attachment menu.
>
> I 1 <no description> [multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 9.3K]
> I 2 |-><no description> [text/plain, quoted, us-ascii, 2.0K]
> I 3 `-><no description> [text/html, quoted, us-ascii, 7.0K]
>
> Looking at the quoted-printable-encoded text/plain part (which I
> have set mutt to display by default) shows that each blank line
> intentionally inserted by the writer is represented by a line
> containing only "=20" and that every newline intentionally inserted
> by the writer is followed by an extra newline. So for example, a
> letter typed like this (where the paragraph was typed as one long
> line):
>
> Hi,
>
> This is a paragraph of text that doesn't mean anything but
> just occupies space for this example.
>
> Regards,
> Fred
>
> appears encoded in the text/plain part of the message body like
> this:
>
> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6130A.C7998636
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> Hi,
>
> =20
>
> This is a paragraph of text that doesn't mean anything =
> but just occupies space for this example.
>
> =20
>
> Regards,
>
> Fred
>
>
> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6130A.C7998636
>
> and is displayed by mutt's pager like this:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> This is a paragraph of text that doesn't mean anything but just
> occupies space for this example.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Fred
>
> This is getting increasingly annoying, in part because the writers
> often copy single-spaced text into their messages which I see as
> double-spaced, which is harder to read and sometimes requires paging
> back and for forth to see the entire message.
>
> Not all messages from Outlook users have this problem, so I suspect
> that it is controlled by some configurable setting. Does anyone
> know what the Outlook users could change to fix this? I can
Setting them to send plaintext only did the trick on my LAN.
p@rick
> influence some of them. Alternatively, is there a way for mutt to
> recognize this broken coding and fix it?
>
> My thought so far is to write a display_filter that looks for the
> pattern "\n\n \n\n" and if found, replaces all "\n\n" with "\n" in
> the message (except for the "\n\n" following the header).
>
> Any other thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
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> Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
> garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Wireless Division
> http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/ | Spokane, Washington, USA
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