Re: base64 to text

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On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Kees Theunissen wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Dianne Skoll wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 10:46:01 -0700
>> "Michael Fox" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to be able to deliver HTML and Base64 messages to those
>>> clients.

Honestly, I would de-MIME the whole message, re-format it and replace the 
entire message with the new one.

>> You can do it by throwing away non-text/plain parts where a text/plain part
>> exists.
>
> Be careful with that. In an ideal world "multipart/alternative" MIME
> parts would supply differently formatted versions of the same message.
> But I have seen way too much messages where the plain text version
> is only used to inform me that my mail client doesn't support html-mail.

Yes, I can confirm this with messages from several senders, even those 
operating in the name of large firms (Microsoft, ...)

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Steffen Kaiser
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