Am Donnerstag, 24. Februar 2005 19:12 schrieb Matt Kettler:
> At 05:42 AM 2/24/2005, Thomas Arend wrote:
> >I got lots of messages with subjects of the form:
> >
> >Subject: =3D?utf-8?q?Wholesale Rolex Watc?=3D
> >  =3D?utf-8?q?hes?=3D
> >
> >Also mail Addresses use this type of obfuscation.
> >
> >My Question: How are thes character set changes handled by SpamAssassin
> >rules and bayesian filtering.
>
> Normal rules and bayes see them after they've been decoded. So as far as
> 90% of SA is concerned, the character set changes aren't there.
>
> Rules that specifically want to detect this stuff can do so by using the
>
> :raw modifier.. i.e.:
>
> header LOCAL_ENCSUBJECT     Subject:raw =~ /\=\?.*\?\=/i
>
> Matches subject lines like:
>
> Subject: =?iso-8859-8?Q?=F2=EC_=E7=EB=EE=FA_=E4=E9=EC=E3?=

When I understand you right my rolex rule is spoiled by this trick.

Because  

header LOCAL_ENCSUBJECT     Subject: =~ /rolex/i

will not fire on these subjects.



Thomas
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