Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-12-11 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Nov 30, 2021, at 1:10 PM, Matija Nalis wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 12:03:15PM -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote: >>> On Nov 17, 2021, at 9:50 AM, Bill Cole >>> wrote: >>> SpamAssassin rules are not laws in any sense. They do not prescribe or >>> proscribe any action. They do not r

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-30 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Philip Prindeville wrote: On Nov 17, 2021, at 9:50 AM, Bill Cole wrote: SpamAssassin rules are not laws in any sense. They do not prescribe or proscribe any action. They do not reflect any sort of moral or ethical judgment. They do not express or define technical correc

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-30 Thread Matija Nalis
On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 12:03:15PM -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2021, at 9:50 AM, Bill Cole > > wrote: > > SpamAssassin rules are not laws in any sense. They do not prescribe or > > proscribe any action. They do not reflect any sort of moral or ethical > > judgment. They do n

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-30 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Nov 17, 2021, at 9:50 AM, Bill Cole > wrote: > > SpamAssassin rules are not laws in any sense. They do not prescribe or > proscribe any action. They do not reflect any sort of moral or ethical > judgment. They do not express or define technical correctness. Isn't that exactly what we'

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 2021-11-17 at 03:59:38 UTC-0500 (Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:59:38 +0100) Philipp Ewald is rumored to have said: UTF-8 emails SHOULD be base64 encoded. Hmm most of our mails we get are not base64 coded... (with charset UTF-8) but OK Base64 encoding is only necessary if there are non-ASCII chara

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-17 Thread Philipp Ewald
UTF-8 emails SHOULD be base64 encoded. Hmm most of our mails we get are not base64 coded... (with charset UTF-8) but OK So any UTF-8 witch is not base64 should get a spam rating bacause IT SHOULD be base64 coded? never mind On 11/16/21 6:55 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 11/16/2021 7:34 AM

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 11/16/2021 7:34 AM, Philipp Ewald wrote: We support utf-8 Mails and we got Mails utf-8 base64 coded. This should be a reason too to set spam rating. Sorry i dont get it. have a nice day. The point is this: UTF-8 emails SHOULD be base64 encoded. ASCII emails SHOULD NOT be base64 encoded

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-16 Thread Philipp Ewald
We support utf-8 Mails and we got Mails utf-8 base64 coded. This should be a reason too to set spam rating. Sorry i dont get it. have a nice day. On 11/16/21 1:00 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 16.11.21 um 12:47 schrieb Philipp Ewald: Why should a uft-8 base64 coded Mail should contain less

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-16 Thread Philipp Ewald
Why should a uft-8 base64 coded Mail should contain less spam? When user get compromised we look into Spammails that was sent. many of that mails was UTF-8 base64 coded and some mail with us-ascii Guess with mail got through spamassassin? RIGHT. base64 coded male with charset utf-8. Contain

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-16 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2021-11-16 at 11:32 +0100, Philipp Ewald wrote: > This is correct. But why is us-ascii requeired for this rule? Are > spammer only in US? > No, its because the base character set for e-mail bodies is USASCII.  Base64 encoding is a way of making sure that attachments using other charsets (

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-16 Thread Philipp Ewald
My problem is that this rule is useless, while I can set the charset to utf-8 and spamassassin ignores this rule I got many SPAMS passed through because 1 scorepoint was missing, because charset was set to "utf-8" Mail with: Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" getting

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 2021-11-15 at 05:53:43 UTC-0500 (Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:53:43 +0100) Philipp Ewald is rumored to have said: I cannot make that line of text into a coherent English sentence. May I pray for pardon my Lord. My english is not nativ. We work with what we have. My German would be far worse.

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-15 Thread Philipp Ewald
I cannot make that line of text into a coherent English sentence. May I pray for pardon my Lord. My english is not nativ. Here you can test it Mail with: Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" getting "MIME_BASE64_TEXT=1.741" Base64 generate with site: https://www.

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-12 Thread Bill Cole
On 2021-11-12 at 04:33:34 UTC-0500 (Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:33:34 +0100) Philipp Ewald is rumored to have said: Hi folks, it's seems to be that spamassins dont check non ASCII Base64 decodes Mails. I cannot make that line of text into a coherent English sentence. Content-Type: text/html; cha

MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-12 Thread Philipp Ewald
Hi folks, it's seems to be that spamassins dont check non ASCII Base64 decodes Mails. Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 [BAYES_99=3.5, BAYES_999=5, HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRAST=0.001, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, MIME_HTML_ONLY=0.723, RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET=1.347, RCVD