Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Aug 10 15:45:28 IST 2005


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On 10 Aug 2005, at 14:30, Daniel Straka wrote:

> Has anyone ever received any legitimate mail that is encoded base 64?

Errr... every attachment I ever get.
But not HTML bodies, no.

> (see header snip-it below) If not, can MailScanner be used to  
> blacklist
> these?
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

A SpamAssassin rule should do the trick. If you aren't happy trying  
to write this yourself, there are other people on the list who should  
be able to help you, if they aren't away on holiday.

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Julian Field
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