Re: base64 encoded emails

2019-10-18 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Fourhundred Thecat: > What is the legitimate reason to use base64 encoded emails ? Languages with an alphabet size of more than the puny 26 characters used in English, for example. ;-) While quoted-printable encoding would do as well in many cases, MUAs may opt to use base64 instead.

Re: base64 encoded emails

2019-10-18 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa
Dnia 18.10.2019 o godz. 08:53:38 Bernardo Reino pisze: > On 2019-10-17 12:17, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > >So you just can't block HTML, because you'll cut yourself off of many > >important messages that you actually want to receive. (However, I give > >HTML-only messages without a plaintext part quite

Re: base64 encoded emails

2019-10-17 Thread Bernardo Reino
On 2019-10-17 12:17, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: So you just can't block HTML, because you'll cut yourself off of many important messages that you actually want to receive. (However, I give HTML-only messages without a plaintext part quite a large spam score in my antispam filter). Interesting to re

Re: base64 encoded emails

2019-10-17 Thread Chris Wedgwood
> What is the legitimate reason to use base64 encoded emails ? i see quite a lot of legitimate email as base64 encoded > Seems to me, it is only being used by spammers to complicate > body_checks any modern checker can and will decode base64 or indeed other message details (the cost of

Re: base64 encoded emails

2019-10-17 Thread @lbutlr
On 17 Oct 2019, at 08:35, Bill Cole wrote: > On 17 Oct 2019, at 7:51, @lbutlr wrote: >> Also., of course, some plaintext messages still have to be en=E2=85=BDoded= >> . >> >> Like this one. > > But not always in Base64. :) True, the sender rarely has any control over how the message is encoded

Re: base64 encoded emails

2019-10-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 17 Oct 2019, at 7:51, @lbutlr wrote: Also., of course, some plaintext messages still have to be en=E2=85=BDoded= . Like this one. But not always in Base64. :) Many clients only do QP or only do Base64 when the content makes it necessary, some make a judgment call based (usually) on the

Re: base64 encoded emails

2019-10-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 17 Oct 2019, at 4:48, Fourhundred Thecat wrote: Hello, I would like to ask what the Postfix community thinks about base64 encoded emails. They are necessary. What is the legitimate reason to use base64 encoded emails ? Any characters outside of the US-ASCII set must be encoded using

Re: base64 encoded emails

2019-10-17 Thread Richard Damon
On 10/17/19 4:48 AM, Fourhundred Thecat wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to ask what the Postfix community thinks about base64 > encoded emails. > > What is the legitimate reason to use base64 encoded emails ? > > Seems to me, it is only being used by spammers to complica

Re: base64 encoded emails

2019-10-17 Thread @lbutlr
On 17 Oct 2019, at 02:48, Fourhundred Thecat <400the...@gmx.ch> wrote: > I believe email should be plaintext. I don't like HTML emails either. If > somebody feels that his message needs fancy formatting, he should send > it as pdf attachment. But emails should stay plaintext. Have fun with that wi

Re: base64 encoded emails

2019-10-17 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa
Dnia 17.10.2019 o godz. 10:48:21 Fourhundred Thecat pisze: > > I believe email should be plaintext. I don't like HTML emails either. If > somebody feels that his message needs fancy formatting, he should send > it as pdf attachment. But emails should stay plaintext. I second that emails should be

Re: base64 encoded emails

2019-10-17 Thread Wesley Peng
Hi on 2019/10/17 16:48, Fourhundred Thecat wrote: I believe email should be plaintext. I don't like HTML emails either. If somebody feels that his message needs fancy formatting, he should send it as pdf attachment. But emails should stay plaintext. non-latin message body should be encoded for

base64 encoded emails

2019-10-17 Thread Fourhundred Thecat
Hello, I would like to ask what the Postfix community thinks about base64 encoded emails. What is the legitimate reason to use base64 encoded emails ? Seems to me, it is only being used by spammers to complicate body_checks Would it be crazy to want to configure Postfix to not accept base64