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Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> Some time back (a couple of years, I think), I wrote code for TM which
> inspected the message to determine the most space-efficient encoding
> (if 8bit/binary weren't possible).  So bodyparts containing mostly
> US-ASCII printable characters got q-p encoding, and others got base64,
> *irrespective of content-type*.  

Seems nice.  I've now written the function, but what is the switchover
point between qp and base64?  Math genius wanted!

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