BF hangs on base64 message

Fri Jan 24 01:31:28 CET 2003

At 06:50 PM 1/23/03, Chris Wilkes wrote:

>Hi,
>
>   I'm testing out BF 0.10 and it hangs on the following message at
>         http://ladro.com/bf/base64hang.txt
>   which is an old spam of mine.  If you want to give it a name call it
>the "Hot Movie Action MM/DD/YY" as its one of two with that Subject
>line.  The other one goes through fine and is marked as spam.
>   Decoding the message it is, of course, an HTML page.  But it looks
>like it is lacking the <HTML> tags on it AFAIK:
>
>   <!-- START FULLPAGE -->
>     <TABLE WIDTH=600 BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0>
>     </TABLE>
>   <!-- End FULLPAGE-->
>
>Chris

Chris,

I'll take a look at the message and see what kind of nonsense it provides 
and what kind of nonsensical response bogofilter is makeing.  I'll keep you 
posted.

Thanks for detecting a problem and providing a test case.

David