Re: [Evolution] How does evo determine when to base64 encode?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 22:25 +0000, Johnson, Brett E (HP Cloud Linux R&D)
wrote:
> Hi all,
> Here at work, I've recently had a msexchange account shoved down my throat, and
> I've noticed that, using evolution-ews, evolution almost always base64-encodes
> the body of my messages.  Yet, if I send the same message via SMTP, it is not
> encoded.  Can anyone explain this?  Is there any way to turn it off?  I really
> don't want to send out base64 encoded blobs to anyone, especially if I have no
> control or warning over it.

I believe that is a 'feature' of Exchange.

I have no idea why it does this [or sometimes uses that winmail/tnef
thing]... as if somehow multi-part messages are insufficient.
-- 
Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>