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[ANN] filter for text-only base64-encoded msgs [LINUX][FOSS]

From Dario Niedermann <dario@darioniedermann.it>
Newsgroups comp.mail.misc, comp.mail.headers, comp.mail.mime
Subject [ANN] filter for text-only base64-encoded msgs [LINUX][FOSS]
Followup-To comp.mail.misc
Date 2019-09-30 11:55 +0200
Organization Not speaking for any
Message-ID <slrnqp3k9c.khm.dario@darioniedermann.it> (permalink)

Cross-posted to 3 groups.

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Sometimes  you'll  get  an email - without attachments, just text - and
that email is base64-encoded for no good reason.   Spammers  have  been
known  to  do that in order to bypass spam filters.  Mailing list soft-
ware has been unwisely configured to send  out  encoded  messages.   Or
clueless users tweaked their client the wrong way...

The end results:

1.  any  rule  in  your  mail processing chain matching on message body
    will fail;

2.  ungreppable messages end up in your stored email.

`debbie' was written to address this specific problem. [...]

See <https://www.darioniedermann.it/sw/debbie.html> for more info.

-- 
Dario Niedermann.                 Also on the Internet at:

gopher://darioniedermann.it/  <>  https://www.darioniedermann.it/

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[ANN] filter for text-only base64-encoded msgs [LINUX][FOSS] Dario Niedermann <dario@darioniedermann.it> - 2019-09-30 11:55 +0200
  [ANN] debbie 2.0 is out! (filter for base64-encoded msgs)[LINUX][FOSS] Dario Niedermann <dario@darioniedermann.it> - 2019-10-05 01:38 +0200

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