It's not a soft return, it's a space. More to the point, it's one of
the special encodings in MIME's "quoted-printable" format, which your
mailer may invoke if you use extended characters such as curly-quotes,
em-dashes or accented letters. I think it'll go away if you avoid
such characters.
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