Per Jessen wrote: > Theo Van Dinter wrote: > >> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:46:04AM +0200, Per Jessen wrote: >>> What I meant to ask is - has anyone written rules for detecting >>> uuencoded files in the body text (not as attachment) ? >> >> I'm not sure about rules specifically, but as a fyi, you may want to >> check out https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=3278 >> which discussed the topic of handling uuencoded files, etc. > > Thanks for the reference, that was interesting reading. I was > surprised to see that OBSCURED_EMAIL got 3.1 points back then (2004) > :-) > > I too thought uuencoding was long dead and gone, but I've only this > week seen four FPs caused by miscellaneous rules triggering off the > uuencoded text.
I've just been doing some tests - and I was quite surprised to see Thunderbird automatically recognise embedded uuencoded files as attachments. /Per Jessen, Zürich
