From postfix-users  Thu Oct 17 23:03:41 2019
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw () f00f ! org>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:03:41 +0000
To: postfix-users
Subject: Re: base64 encoded emails
Message-Id: <20191017230341.GA12309 () aether ! stupidest ! org>
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> 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 doing so is quite low)

> Would it be crazy to want to configure Postfix to not accept base64?

that will break a lot of legitimate sources