Openness vs. Comfort

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 19:57:53 +0200, Polytropon wrote:
>Depending on the storage format (mbox or MailDir), you can even use
>plain old grep to search for something specific.

In an ideal world, but not in reality, since even plain text is often
encoded.

Here an example of a plain text mail from a mailing list.

https://www.base64decode.org/

This is stored on my machine:

aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXBvLm9yLmN6L2phY2tfbWl4ZXIuZ2l0CgpIb3BlIHRoYXQgaGVscHMuCk9saXZp
ZXIKCi0tIApTaXRlIHdlYiA6IGh0dHBzOi8vbGlicmF6aWsudHV4ZmFtaWx5Lm9yZy8KRG9uYXRp
b24gOiBodHRwczovL2xpYmVyYXBheS5jb20vTGlicmFaaUsvCkRpYXNwb3JhIDogCmh0dHBzOi8v
ZnJhbWFzcGhlcmUub3JnL3Blb3BsZS84YzE4NGFmMGM5NDUwMTM0ZjY2ODJhMDAwMDA1MzYyNQpN
YXN0b2RvbiA6IGh0dHBzOi8vbWFzdG9kb24ueHl6L0BMaWJyYVppSwpfX19fX19fX19fX19fX19f
X19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fXwpMaW51eC1hdWRpby11c2VyIG1haWxpbmcg
bGlzdApMaW51eC1hdWRpby11c2VyQGxpc3RzLmxpbnV4YXVkaW8ub3JnCmh0dHBzOi8vbGlzdHMu
bGludXhhdWRpby5vcmcvbGlzdGluZm8vbGludXgtYXVkaW8tdXNlcgo=

After decoding it reads:

https://repo.or.cz/jack_mixer.git

Hope that helps.
Olivier

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