Theo Van Dinter wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:46:04AM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
>> What I meant to ask is - has anyone written rules for detecting
>> uuencoded files in the body text (not as attachment) ?
> 
> I'm not sure about rules specifically, but as a fyi, you may want to
> check out https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=3278
> which discussed the topic of handling uuencoded files, etc.

Thanks for the reference, that was interesting reading.  I was surprised
to see that OBSCURED_EMAIL got 3.1 points back then (2004) :-)

I too thought uuencoding was long dead and gone, but I've only this week
seen four FPs caused by miscellaneous rules triggering off the
uuencoded text. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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