> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:20 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Does sa-learn process encoded messages?
> 
> 
> At 09:53 PM 8/12/03 -0700, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
> >If a message body is encoded base64 or whatever, does
> >sa-learn properly process the message? I mean, will it
> >properly decode the body into "real text" and then process
> >the tokens appropriately?
> 
> I'm not entirely sure about the bayes code, but I'd expect it 
> operates on 
> the same basis as pretty much all the SA rules.
> 
> Base64 is always decoded, even for "rawbody" rules, so I'd be very 
> surprised if bayes didn't decode this.
> 
> I'd also venture to guess it sees the same post-processed 
> form of the body 
> as normal "body" rules, which means that HTML tags and 
> end-of-lines are 
> stripped out too. This would seem to be the format that would 
> make the most 
> sense and make it harder to obfuscate strings in random ways. 
> I could be 
> wrong on this part however.
> 
What about that double encoding trick? I never got a clear answer as to how
that was done. 


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