On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Justin Mason wrote:

> David B Funk writes:
> >
> >I can see two different ways to handle this, either make SA more
> >flexible and decode the bastardized QP so normal rules will hit
> >or write a rule that hits such bastardized QP coding as a spam-tool
> >signature.
>
> Are you sure about this?  If it's the case, we do need to
> decode it, and it would be great to have it reported as a bug.
>
> - --j.

I've not dissected the SA code but empirical testing indicates it.
(Take Larry's snippet, change those '=2e' to '=2E' and watch
SA properly parse it).

I had noticed the same phenomenon before but was too lazy to track
it down. ;) With Larry's query as a prod, I took the time to test
it and look up the relevant RFC.

Dave

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