8bit mime support? (linked to thunderbird issue)

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2025 23:28:51 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit JL wrote:
> well it does compress, however you can't compress it on the imap server,

Pardon my ignorance, but why can't the IMAP server store your emails 
compressed? Maybe you should complain to the operator of the IMAP server if, 
in your opinion, they are wasting storage space. Or complain to its authors if 
you are operate the server yourself.

Given the insane growth of email headers it would actually make sense that the 
IMAP server used compression. Taking your message (as it is stored on my IMAP 
server) as example:
Size of the header: 12,315 bytes
Size of the body: 8,556 bytes.

By the way, why is the body of your message base64 encoded? Was is re-encoded 
in flight or did your Thunderbird send your unsigned plain text message base64 
encoded?

Regards,
Ingo
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