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Re: [Ifile-discuss] ifile and BASE64 mails
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Camillo Särs |
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Re: [Ifile-discuss] ifile and BASE64 mails |
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Sat, 22 Feb 2003 10:24:50 +0200 |
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Lea Viljanen wrote:
> I just got my e-mail system hooked up with ifile
> and it otherwise works OK, but misses all BASE64
> encoded spam (half a dozen or so per day).
This is a common complaint about ifile, but it's actually not "really"
ifile's fault. At least not according to "naive" unix philosophy. It's
really more a matter of finding a good tool to do decoding of BASE64 in a
reasonable way. I tried to use metamail, but it's just too broken for
anyting like automatic piping of all mail through it. I got crashes on
umpteen mails. Don't want a security hole in my email. :(
So, anyone who knows a good BASE64-to-tokenizable-text filter, raise your hand!
For now, I choose to supplement ifile with Mozilla 1.3b junk mail filtering.
Actually Mozilla is doing a very good job on the missed emails. It has
also picked up on the "X-Spam-Flag:" header I add.
> Any hints? I could start tweaking ifilter.mh
> to decode the e-mails before passing to ifile,
> but I hope someone has already solved this?
I'd appreciate a good solution as well. Just the tool would do, the
tweaking I can handle myself.
Cheers,
Camillo
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