Re: [Nolug] Re: NOLUG mailing list bug

Petri Laihonen <pietu@weblizards.net> writes:

> Why would the e-mail be base 64 encoded to beginwith?

Safety? The outgoing email is marked UTF-8. Instead of examining the
email to see if it has high-bit characters, the MTA sees that and,
knowing many downstream MTAs (e.g. Exim) will complain if they get 8bit
mail, encodes it using base64.

Why Base64 and not Quoted-Printable? Who knows. Doesn't matter.

Anyone who touches the email should handle it correctly. The email
isn't being handled correctly by the mailing list software.

Mark.

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