On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 12:04:54PM -0600, Jay Jacobs wrote:
> I just got some spam that had the entire body base64 encoded, it's
> content-type was "multipart/mixed" with one part, the base64, which was
> listed as type "text/html".
> 
> Here's what hit:
> PLING,BASE64_ENC_TEXT
> 
> I see two big issues:
> 1) it should have hit on the "html only" test, even though it was labelled
> as multipart, it had only one part.
> 2) the body wasn't parsed at all and thus bypassed all body tests, and
> therefor got through the filter unscathed.
> 
> It seems that spammers could get around a lot just by base64 encoding
> their message?

This is fixed in CVS, but it's still not very smart.  See
http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114 for details.

Dan.

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