> 
> Could this probably be abused by enclosing the complete Mail in "<"and ">" 
> Tags or something similar? So if the whole body ist one big invalid comment 
No Because then none of the text would be displayed so the vector is useless.

> or tag, would the rest of the tests come up empty, because the message body 
> is empty after stripping? And closely related: Would Outlook and Co. display 
> this kind of message correctly (If the body is marked as HTML? If the body is 
> marked as plain text?)

It dosent matter, a message has to get past SA and display correctly on the recipents 
UA in order to be of any use. And there in lies the achiles heel of the spammer. 
BTW HTML tags are not removed if the mimetype is not HTML !

> 
> Just an idea, I'm not familiar with the internals of spamassassin, so maybe I 
> am talking out of the wrong end... :-?
> 

I wasn't going to mention this, I thought it was funny. A mail like this got through 
my settings a while back. I have a palm and I read my mail on it sometimes. Here is an 
excerpt from the mail I got on my palm.

------
Thereoarernougimmicks,kourcproductnish100%uGuaranteed.

Clickghereltooseechowmitdcangworkhforiyou. 

There'sanofneedstoabenashamedmofjwearinglaubathingtsuitlthisvyear. 
Wedknowjthatjnotueveryonejhasvthedtimeftodspendeatnthebgym 
Soiwe'vejdesignedjHGHstokhelpjyoumloseeweightballkday,handfevencatpnightswhiletyouksleep.
----------

OK It did look alright on OE6 but on the palm it is jaberwocky with the slythe toves





Stuart Gall  
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