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Old 11-21-2025, 07:19 PM   #3441
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Why did they do that? I thought that sort of image encoding was for ancient email systems.
If by ancient you mean anything you sent or read today? Yup. Base64 is very much actively used for all sorts of binary blobs from embedded images to SPF/DKIM/DMARC data in the headers.
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