Matt Kettler writes:
> 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.

No, correct on both points ;)

--j.


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