>It is quite possible. I guess I am a LITTLE surprised this is the first instance you've ever seen where a text part was encoded with base64; I get those all of the time (and not just in work emails either). Maybe you get those more often than you think and this is just the first time you wanted to reply to such a message? But yes, nmh out of the box does not handle that well and it doesn't sound like there was any configuration change on your side. Note that I don't think anybody thinks that the current default nmh behavior is optimal by any means, but fixing this natively is ... complicated.
>Perhaps I am losing it but when I first looked at the header fields >for the message that was giving me problems I could have sworn it said >"Content-Transfer-Encoding: Base64". Now when I look at it instead of >base64 it says 8bit. Am I confused or is that what mhfixmsg did, changed >the message from base64 to 8bit? As others have indicated, yes, that is exactly what it does. >I also notice looking thru other messages that most say 7bit. That is the "standard" encoding for ASCII email. If people send text parts with 8bit characters the encoding format varies. I suspect you probably see quoted-printable a fair amount, as my unscientific impression is that encoding is a lot more common for text parts with 8bit characters. --Ken