C# email body contains extra characters like =3d

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Hi I have written a pop3 service, the problem is when I download the content it always contain extra characters in the email body like =3D or = at the end of every line etc.

is there any way to get rid of them ?

Mail contains HTML content and these are couple of lines from mail

XML

<TABLE style=3D"COLOR: #000000" border=3D0 cellSpacing=3D0 =
cellPadding=3D0 width=3D"100%"=20
align=3Dcenter>
  <TBODY>
  <TR>
    <TD style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 10px">
      <TABLE style=3D"COLOR: #000000" border=3D0 cellSpacing=3D0 =
cellPadding=3D0=20

Best Regards
Rizwan Bashir

Posted 20-Apr-11 20:27pm

Rizwan Bashir

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BobJanova · Answer 1 · 2011-04-20T22:44:00

POP3 uses a similar format to HTTP POST, and message content is typically encoded in this way. (The transfer encoding header will tell you, it is "quoted-printable" – see Wikipedia[^].) It is a simple job to decode such strings (the two characters after an = give you a byte code).

Remember when reading emails that you also have to deal with multi-part messages and MIME-encoded sections (for example images or attachments).