[Mimedefang] Rebuild Message before running SpamAssassin

Mon May 10 09:05:34 EDT 2004

--On Saturday, May 8, 2004 5:50 PM +0200 Guido 
<mimedefang.at.lists.roaringpenguin.com at starbase12.cjb.net> wrote:

> The problem is that I want it to also scan textual attachments which have
> the  content-type application/octet-stream.

Q: What?  What software does THAT?  ...some file grepping ensues...
A: Apple Mail.

--Apple-Mail-1-579374051
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
        x-unix-mode=0666;
        name="mime-attachment"
Content-Disposition: attachment;
        filename=mime-attachment

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#FFFFFF>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A 
HREF="http://653629.qwtwuw.info/OE017/?affiliat\
e_id=233531&campaign_id=601">
<IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="cid:525l5v2694t7534y94158y600ls09p44" 
align=baseline \
border=0></A>
</FONT>
... more, not quoted

This looks like a nice Spamassassin evasion technique.  Just wait.

Joseph Brennan
Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems (AcIS)
Columbia University in the City of New York