Grreting card scams

[Glenn Steen]

On 27/07/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Glenn Steen wrote:
> > On 27/07/07, UxBoD <uxbod at splatnix.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Okay, have done some testing.  For the signature to trigger it has to have a source file that contains the message body, and the following headers :-
> >>
> >> MIME-Version: 1.0
> >> Content-Type: text/plain;
> >>
> >> otherwise it reports the file as being okay.
> >>
> >
> > Kind of what I thought... It doesn't understand that it is a mail it
> > is handling.:-(
> >
> > Jules, how would you like to play this one?
> > I suspect that whatever we do might end up being ... less than
> > elegant... Unless you have some inspiration...:-)
> >
> Yuck.
> I would have to copy the entire message into the scanning directory as
> well and alter every single parser to look out for it. Nasty job.
>
Agreed, not nice at all.
But we miss out on some sigs here, and could well be set (if the
mumblings I've heard here and there arre true) to miss out on quite a
few more.
So perhaps there would be reason in doing something about it, even if
it is ... icky.

Cheers
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