• kescusay@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Long story short:

    • Some of the emails in the file dump had attachments.
    • The way attachments work in emails is that they’re converted to encoded text.
    • That encoded text was included - badly - in the file dump.
    • So it’s theoretically possible to convert them back to the original files, but it will take work to get the text back. Every character has to be exactly correct.

    Source: I’m a software developer and I’m currently trying to recover one of these attachments.