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From: "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject: Re: Betterbird has same problem as Thunderbird
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:11:36 +0200
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On 2026-06-21 10:26, Andy Burns wrote:
> Alfred Peters wrote:
> 
>> That's most likely due to the sender's settings.
>>
>> He probably set the pref: "mail.strictly_mime true" to force 7-bit
>> encoding. This causes TB to use "quoted-printable" as
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding, as should be visible in this article.
> I thought that I had strictly_mime enabled, but turns out I did not, 
> having enabled it, yes I get base64 on messages with non-7bit characters 
> (I do have format flowed too)

I don't even have that setting defined.

And I have

mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed	true	

I know that sometimes my TB sends using base64.


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Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.
        ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;