On Wed, 5 May 2004, OpenMacNews wrote:
> 0.0 MIME_BASE64_NO_NAME RAW: base64 attachment does not have a file
> name
> 1.0 MIME_BASE64_TEXT RAW: Message text disguised using base64 encoding
>
> Can anyone comment as to whether it makes sense to simply score these rules
> to "20-ish" as well? I naively am not aware of anyone ELSE sending me MIME
> encoded messages other than a couple of in-house scripts that i whitelist.
>
> Comments/Thoughts/insights?
If you do that don't count on corresponding with somebody outside the
USA. Many international e-mail clients base64 encode messages that use
8-bit or unicode character sets, even when using only the 7-bit ASCII
part of the character set.
Being a university with correspondents all over the world, about
20% of our legimate email traffic is base64 encoded.
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Dave Funk University of Iowa
<dbfunk (at) engineering.uiowa.edu> College of Engineering
319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center
Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527
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