how to remove "=20" at end-of-line html/text emails

Question

I am using vbs and hMailServer to send html/text emails.

I noticed that for the text section of the email =20 was added to the end of almost every line making it harder to read the text section of the email.

How can I prevent getting these =20 at the end of most of the lines?

This image shows what I am finding -- note, not all new line breaks have the =20 marker at the end:

None of these are working: vbCrLf, vbNewLine, vbCr, vbLf, Chr(13), Chr(10).

Except, for some reason, adding a period "." just before the linebreak (like this "." & vbCrLf) makes the =20 go away. And it looks like the same is true for lines ending with a dash - and/or the line starting with a space; and lines with no text.

For what it is worth, this is how I am sending it to hMailServer.

    Set hms= Server.CreateObject("hMailServer.Message")
    hms.Body = emailtext_no_HTML
    hms.HTMLBody = emailtext_with_HTML

Answer 1

I ended up doing a workaround, by adding a space to the start of each new line.