On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Karsten Br?ckelmann wrote:

I just got a 419/fillform spam where the bulk of the message was in a base64-encoded plain text attachment. This effectively bypassed the many BODY and RAWBODY tests that would have hit on the text had it been included in the message body.

Should plain text attachments be scanned as regular message parts?

Sample?

http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/antispam/samples/body_text_as_octet_attachment.txt

As I understand the docs, both are supposed to include all text parts.

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