I C... I was able to reproduce this quite easily with outlook express, I am surprised its not used more frequently. I suppose the renagade bulk mailer programmers havent added that option yet...
I agree Scott, html/txt should never be sent that way. I formally request that filter feature be added :-) As always thanks for your response and effort Have a great day! Rick Davidson Buckeye Internet Services www.buckeyeweb.com 440-953-1900 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Encoded Email... how? > > >This one has me baffled. This email (spam) showed up as what appeared to be > >an html formatted message. When I view the raw message it appears as an > >encoded attachment making it impossible to filter on any body content. > > > >How are they doing it and how do we stop it? > > That's getting to be a more common trick of spammers. They are sending an > HTML MIME segment that is encoded (using base64 encoding, which is normally > only used when sending files). That way, the E-mail can't easily be filtered. > > It's something that we may add a new test for, as HTML (and text) should > never need to be encoded that way. > -Scott > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > --- > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
