I think (not sure) OE does this when it codes the message in RTF format.
_M

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| Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Wordfilter in BASE64?
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| on 9/25/02 9:31 AM, Scott MacLean wrote:
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| > That's what I suspected. Has anyone seen HTML Base64 segments that 
| > *weren't* spam?
| 
| Yes. A few at first but more are appearing now.
| 
| > Are there any email clients that actually put out such a thing?
| 
| Every message my brother's in-laws send to their daughter 
| (his wife) are in Base64 for some reason. They are using 
| Outlook Express. I have also seen 5 other addresses who's 
| messages are always in Base64 for some reason.
| 
| The only reliable way to use the Base64 test is with a 
| weighting system and hope the message fails some other tests also.
| 
| I asked Scott if he was going to combine the Base64 test and 
| the Filter test so that we could scan for our own catch 
| phrases in Base64 messages like we can in plain text 
| messages. I was told no.
| 
| Later,
| Greg
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