Many =0A characters in UTF-8 Gmail IMAP mails

Hi,
I`m using Mail to receive emails from my Gmail account.
I`m receiving some e-mails with a lot of strange characters like this:
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=0A = : 14388607
=0A =0A =0A = =0A =0A =0A =0A = =0A =0A =0A =0A =0A =0A
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On RAW Source I can see:
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
So it is a normal UTF-8 email, why do I get this strange aspect?
Same email appears perfectly normal in webmail.

=0A is just the quoted printable representation of the line feed character. There is something about the received email that prevents Mail from decoding this properly, I don't know of anything you could do at your end to fix it.

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