Re: Does SpamAssassin perform tests/scans on attachments?

[Adam Moffett]

I've seen people post in the past that SA will demime text attachments, 
and now someone says it won't.

What's the real story?


It doesn't.  At least, not like what you are thinking.

As you know an encoded attachment is a series of lines like:

XXHUBKJVHLSJFWSJNDL:SANFKJHSBFSLJRWKSBF
DSKJNBFSHNF:LSJFLKSNFLKJSBFLK:SNFLKSNFS
FJSHBFLKSHNFLKNSFL:SF:LSNFLKSNFLK:SNFL:
KFSLKHFDSHNFKDNFLDKNFLKDNFLKJHDBIAVFBUB

SA scans that.  Of course, there is nothing there that matches
anything.