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| 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
news:kbt98v4r1ospffaj79ask4k3gvq3busu21{at}4ax.com...
> 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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