People receive "=" signs in mail I send

Problem:

People I send mail to get equal signs in the messages I send.

Answer:

This is due to Quoted Printable Encoding. The three-character codes, beginning with =, like =E9 are quoted-printable encoding that didn't get decoded.

Quoted-printable encoding is a way of getting special characters, that is, non-US-ASCII characters, processed in the SMTP server. Usually the SMTP server cannot process these special characters.This information is found in the Eudora Reference Guide. The problem is that either your recipient's mail program didn't do the decoding properly, or a mail server between you and the recipient mangled the headers of the message so that Eudora couldn't decode it. Turn off quoted-printable encoding when you send messages to that recipient. On the Macintosh, you can turn this off by un-checking the QP icon at the top of the message before you send it. On Windows Eudora, you can click the QP button at the top of the message.

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KEYWORDS: EPMAC, QUOTED-PRINTABLE, QP