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Re:Mailgun Becomes an Independent Company by disiplus on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:25PM (#13709299)
alternative is to use base64. some things you learn when you have to deal with emails.

also first time i was sending sms messages and not using ascii trying to determinate the message length was fun. and by fun i mean gsm 7bit annoying.

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Re:Mailgun Becomes an Independent Company by justinator on Thursday February 23, 2017 @03:10PM (#13717296)
I wouldn't suggest base64 encoding for messages that are mostly text (plaintext, html messages), but it's just dandy for attachments.

Debugging something in an email message encoding in quoted-printable simply by viewing its source is doable sometimes. If it's in base64, not so much. I believe the size of your message would also be less using quoted-printable, rather than base64

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