Date   : Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:05:21 +0100
From   : samwise@... (samwise)
Subject: 8-bit Articles wanted for next issue of Drag 'n Drop

On 28 September 2010 16:58, Rick Murray <rick@...> wrote:

> The message above from Paul Stewart appears as a bunch of lines that
> look like:
> SXQncyBub3QgdG9vIGxhdGUgdG8gY29udHJpYnV0ZSB0byB0aGUgbmV4dCBpc3N1ZSBvZiBEcmFn

> What's this? Some sort of MIME? It's the first time I've encountered an
> entire encoded message, as opposed to the usual =xx stuff.

Rick,

The mail headers for Paul's mail includes:

So, yes, it's not plain text.  More detailed info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64

Peter.