converting base64 emails back to text

[Tim]

On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 22:06 +0000, g wrote:
> now that fedora project has started sending emails as;
>  
> }} Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> }} Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>  
> is there a way to convert emails back to text so that local searching
> of emails can be done?

You could pipe your mail through a local mailserver, one that transcodes
on the way through.  Various mail/list servers do that, and you can do
just the same thing, but picking the output encoding that you want used.

I have to say, though, that I haven't noticed it sending mails in that
encoding.  I do look at message sources, from time to time, and base64
has been a bit of a rarity.

Is it this server doing it?  Often, one the mail headers will mention a
transcoding, and you can see which one did it.

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