Re: VMware woes

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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
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