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Some emails coming in as gobbeldegook

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Random emails are coming in looking like this: (private, USPS, etc.) Why?


=_Part_575397_115620476.1698020651993

Content-Type: image/png Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="1698019894740blob.jpg" Content-ID: <87515455-5992-5c0c-484d-65c0b5a2fa9b@yahoo.com>

iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAABDgAAAVcCAIAAABWYL0gAAAgAElEQVR4nOzdabQs2VUf+P/e50RE Zt7hzVWv5ipJpaI0gBAgSkOhyXgJELLAeCEsDN24wcZ4tY273RNebn/t/tCrP3R7NTTY2N1m6rXs Xs1kM4gGzFQI1EIIITFoqqpXqlfvvTtlZkScs/fuD5GZN+/06t1Xb8h77/7patd9mZGREZERN8+O M9HPvp7gnHPOOeecc4uE7/YGOOecc84559xunqg455xzzjnnFo4nKs4555xzzrmF44mKc84555xz

Random emails are coming in looking like this: (private, USPS, etc.) Why? ------=_Part_575397_115620476.1698020651993 Content-Type: image/png Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="1698019894740blob.jpg" Content-ID: <87515455-5992-5c0c-484d-65c0b5a2fa9b@yahoo.com> iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAABDgAAAVcCAIAAABWYL0gAAAgAElEQVR4nOzdabQs2VUf+P/e50RE Zt7hzVWv5ipJpaI0gBAgSkOhyXgJELLAeCEsDN24wcZ4tY273RNebn/t/tCrP3R7NTTY2N1m6rXs Xs1kM4gGzFQI1EIIITFoqqpXqlfvvTtlZkScs/fuD5GZN+/06t1Xb8h77/7patd9mZGREZERN8+O M9HPvp7gnHPOOeecc4uE7/YGOOecc84559xunqg455xzzjnnFo4nKs4555xzzrmF44mKc84555xz

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What version of Thunderbird? What is your account Type - POP or IMAP? What is your anti-virus software?

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Apparently abandoned in favour of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1468910