On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 05:57:41PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Recently (only noticed it today) I find saved messages
(saved with 's' command) are saved with long lines split.
An equal sign at end ("=") and often "3D" the hex code
for equals at the beginning of the next line.
My .muttrc has the following, unchanged, set of lines:
#
set wrap=0
set reflow_text=no
set reflow_wrap=0
set text_flowed=yes
set smart_wrap=no
#
Any explanation for this new behavior and possible fix?
Bit of background. The stimulus for my posting was trying to decide
what messages could be safely set to "ignore" in logcheck reports.
But the 5000 line reports were saved with the split lines and
I was unable to reformat them simply. Then just today:
In a separate thread (Subject: equal signs omitted in body of message?)
"Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]> gave me a big helpful clue:
"In their headers for the HTML part, they said the message contents were:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable"
Sure enough, my logcheck emails contained that header. Experimenting
showed me that my original assumption was wrong, the splitting was in
the messages themselves (they were encoded), it did not happen on
saving. I was fooled by the display on reading the messages in mutt
which decoded them.
That insight led me to web-search for how to decode "quoted-printable"
files and I found I already had a decoder installed, "qprint".
I will look, but still appreciate hints, for a mutt command to save
the decoded version of a message? Maybe without headers and/or sig.
Thanks to Kevin and other responders.
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Jon H. LaBadie [email protected]
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