On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Sascha E. Pollok wrote:
> let's imagine I have a perl-script that reads
> from STDIN (while (<>) { ...) and is called
> via a pipe-alias.
"while (<>)" only reads from STDIN if there are no file names on the
command line. You need "while (<STDIN>)" if you want to read from STDIN
only.
> When I send a mail to this script, it gets the
> message with "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable"
> and some chars are encoded like =3D or =20.
>
> Can anyone tell me if this is normal?
Some MUAs and MTAs mangle messages into this lunatic form, so I suppose
it is "normal" in some sense. Exim does *not* make any changes like this
to messages.
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