Why are emails often sent as base64 encoded

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Looking at the raw source for an email often shows that they are sent base64 encoded even when the unencoded data is plain text. What would be the reason for base64 encoding text to send in an email? My guess is something to do with avoiding issues with special/control characters.

Qwertie

Posted 2019-06-04T03:14:06.483

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Question was closed 2019-06-23T03:47:32.393

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