how to kill base64 emails?

[Julian Field]

At 21:37 04/03/2004, you wrote:
>Gang,
>    I've noticed lately that a lot of spam is base64 encoded,
>and I've also noticed:
>
>X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit...
>
>in my mail headers lately (4.28 era).  What is this about?
>This may relates to my howl about an uptick in spam with 4.28
>that I had this morning.  Maybe due to recent changes in
>the MIME code?

I haven't changed anything related to this. The base64 to 8bit conversion
is done by your MTA.

>Is there a quick way in MailScanner to mark base64 encoded
>messages as spam?  Is this a bright idea to do, if I can?

Attachments are base64 encoded, so this isn't such a great idea :-)
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