Scott...

Thank you... This is great.

This is a great help and one that will save us from having to explain the
issue over and over again.

Latest Beta?  What is the release number?  Currently wee have 1.67i3.

Regards,
Kami



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Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 10:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] BASE64? PLEASE...



>You once said you are thinking of adding Base64 parsing capability to 
>Declude.
>
>Has that moved in the priorities?
>
>Adding this to Declude would truly make it a perfect spam killing
>machine... & not having it with the ever more usage of it is causing more 
>spams to come through.
>
>With Base64 our filters are useless.

It is important to remember that Declude JunkMail has a BASE64 test that 
will catch 100% of spam that uses base64 to bypass filters.

It is also important to remember that for every false positive we've seen 
on the BASE64 test, there was no legitimate reason for the base64 encoding 
to be used, and those legitimate E-mails were wasting bandwidth, storage 
space, and resources.

People who send out legitimate E-mail with base64 encoded text or HTML 
segments are making the spam problem worse.

For those reasons, I recommend treating E-mail that fails the BASE64 test 
harshly.

However, the latest beta does automatically decode base64 MIME segments 
(although it will be set up as a configuration option in an upcoming
release).
                                    -Scott

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