"$d_SysMaint""Thunderbird/mime decoding.txt

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28Sep2018  News email account :  must set Menu -> Edit -> Account settings -> pick emailAddress/Server Settings -> 
	Security settings :  Connection security : none,  Authentication method : Password, transmitted insecurely
13Sep2017  Thunderbird mail cp udate, example
see "/media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/bin/cp-mv general.sh" for general version, with Thunderbird setup
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https://superuser.com/questions/632490/how-can-i-stop-my-email-being-blocked-as-spam/632571#632571
You can check if your mail server IP address is blacklisted or not using a tool such as this: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
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ToDos : 
28Sep2018  YIKES!  Thunderbird email filter not working?
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06Dec2018  mime decoding of email content

08Nov2018  As of this date, mass emails have been mime utf-8 encoded, and I'm not sure why.  In any case, content must be tested by :
- saving mime-only part of the email as viewed on lexicom.ca
to : /media/bill/ramdisk/mime check.txt
$ base64  --decode  "/media/bill/ramdisk/mime check.txt"  

Why all-mime?  possibly because of :  
-  length >40 kbytes?  
- all-mime message body

This could easily be a basis for email filtering as spam!!
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08Nov2018  base64 conversion of outgoing mass email

WARNING :  Apparently, many email systems label base64-only emails as spam!!!

https://superuser.com/questions/766269/how-to-change-content-transfer-encoding-for-email-attachments
It's because the file is UTF-8-encoded text.  E-Mails support only 7-bit ASCII as per specifications. Everything else has to be encoded somehow.  Daniel B  Jun 8 '14 at 21:08
in thunder bird Edit-> preference -> Display -> font -> advanced -> out going mail set it from UTF-8 to Western iso 8859-1
answered Aug 17 '14 at 5:07, Amr Awad
>> didn't work

Menu -> Edit -> Account Settings -> IJCNN_International_Joint_Conference_on_Neural_Nets@BillHowell.ca -> Server settings
	-> Connection security:  SSL/TLS to STARTTLS
>> didn't work?

Menu -> Edit -> preferences -> Advanced -> config editor -> mail.imap.mime_parts_on_demand_threshold;30000
>> I can't see any relevant setting!

mail.server.server2.max_size;50000

Looking at base64 content : 
$ base64 -d "/media/bill/PROJECTS/2019 IJCNN Budapest/mass emails/base64 body.txt" >"/media/bill/PROJECTS/2019 IJCNN Budapest/mass emails/base64 body decoded.txt"

charset=windows-1252  ??
doewn't help - but font is what Jose wants

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https://superuser.com/questions/632490/how-can-i-stop-my-email-being-blocked-as-spam/632571#632571
You can check if your mail server IP address is blacklisted or not using a tool such as this: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

If your current mail server IP address is blacklisted, then you need to switch to (or relay through) a different mail server whose IP address is not blacklisted.
answered Aug 16 '13 at 2:36
Yosi Mor
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Remove line breaks in mailto bodies
>> didn't work



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