[Mailman-Users] Base64 encoding?

[Jim Garrison]

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Jim Garrison wrote:
> 
>> Does Mailman ever take a message that it received in plain
>> text form and re-encode it in base64 (leaving the mime type
>> as text/plain)?
> 
> 
> Yes. (It's actually the underlying Python email library that does it.)
> On English language lists, it happens most commonly with messages
> whose character set is utf-8.

Is there a way to disable this? What's the reason for base64
encoding UTF8? Is it trying to avoid using the high bit of
each message byte?


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