On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 12:25 -0400, Adam Moffett wrote:
> > I've seen people post in the past that SA will demime text attachments,
> > and now someone says it won't.
>
> Ted was answering a question about binary attachments, not text.
>
> > What's the real story?
>
> It depends. On the rule definition, as explained in the M::SA::Conf
> docs.
[snip..]

It further depends upon whether a given SA installation has 3rd
party plugins. There are plugins that add new tests for various kinds
of attachements.
EG:
  ImageInfo & FuzzyOcr add tests for image attachments.

There are plugins which attempt to extract text from DOC, RTF, & PDF
attachments.

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