On Sun, 2024-01-14 at 17:17 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > Tim: > > > Which I received base64 encoded, for reasons unfathomable. > > Dave Close: > > I wonder what did that. It wasn't sent that way: > > Content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit > > These days, 8-bit mail ought to be able to traverse the internet > unscathed (not need encoding), but so many things decide that they > better re-encode it for reasons best known only to themselves. The > SMTP server you posted through, a list mail server it went into, any > other servers before you received it... > > But I didn't notice anything in that message that wasn't 7-bit, so > even > less need to encode it.
I suspect that saying it's UTF-8 would be enough. I doubt that any mail server would bother scanning the content to see if it really needed encoding. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
