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echo: nthelp
to: Mike Nice
from: John Beamish
date: 2003-03-28 21:03:10
subject: Re: OE message filtering on base 64?

From: "John Beamish" 

And you can sequence the rules so that there's a Dell rule ahead of the
'base-64' rule, so you could force the Dell messages to be accepted before
your 'base-64' rule rejecting anything else was processed.

"Mike Nice"  wrote in message
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> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:34:15 -0500, "Tony Ingenoso"
 wrote:
>
> >Can OE filter somehow on the presense of a base 64 component in a
message?  This would eliminate a lot of spam.  Any email I'm
> >interested in will NOT have any base 64 components!
>
>    OE can't do this, however when I do this at the mailserver, I cannot
block messages on
> this attribute alone - there are 2 legitimate but rare sources of base64
encoded messages:
>   1.) Dell quotes
>   2.)  Exchange OWA web client randomly does this for unknown reasons.
>
>    Base64 adds a healthy weighting toward overall blocking however.
>

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