SPAM with lots of random words and good words

Boris 'pi' Piwinger 3.14 at logic.univie.ac.at
Tue Jan 20 11:56:03 CET 2004


pgb at adelard.com wrote:

>> Currently bogofilter recognizes the Content-Disposition header lines and
>> keeps track of whether inline or attachment was specified.  However, the
>> information is not begin used.
>> 
>> Bogofilter also keeps track of Content-Type and ignores tokens from mime
>> parts labeled as application, image, and message.
>> 
> So I infer that an attached spam email would be classed as a mime 
> message part and be ignored.
> i.e. it is safe to attach a spam without zipping it first - right??

Not quite. It is important which MIME-Type you have. If it
is message/rfc-822, then it is ignored. If it is attached as
text/plain, it is not.

pi




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