Github user sebbASF commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-ponymail/issues/366
If the source is in ASCII, then it can be stored safely; it is only bytes
outside the ASCII range that may get corrupted by encoding/decoding.
Since many emails are ASCII only, it makes sense to only use base64 for
those
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