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List:       postfix-users
Subject:    Re: base64 encoded emails
From:       Chris Wedgwood <cw () f00f ! org>
Date:       2019-10-17 23:03:41
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
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