[ale] Mystery Spam

Wed Nov 19 09:27:42 EST 2003

Note in header:

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

That is how,
Dow

Jeff Hubbs wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 08:30, Fletch wrote:
>  
>
>>>>>>>"Jeff" == Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> writes:
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>    Jeff> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>>
>>It's base64 encoded (a method for encoding binary data that might have
>>to pass through somewhere that's not able to handle arbitrary 8bit
>>data).
>>
>>
>>    Jeff> PGh0bWw+DQpUaGVzZSBhcmUgd2hhdCB0aGV5IGxvb2sgbGlrZSB0b2RheSA8YnI+DQp0aGV5IGFy
>>
>>freebie:~ 401> perl -MMIME::Base64 -le 'print decode_base64( <> )' <<EOT
>>heredoc> PGh0bWw+DQpUaGVzZSBhcmUgd2hhdCB0aGV5IGxvb2sgbGlrZSB0b2RheSA8YnI+DQp0aGV5IGFy
>>heredoc> EOT
>><html>
>>These are what they look like today <br>
>>they ar
>>    
>>
>
>Dang, Perl looks like fun.
>
>I guess where my confusion lies is this:  How did Evolution know to
>perform the base64 decode for that text?  Does it (and other mail
>clients, I'd presume) look for some sort of characteristic "smell" in
>its message text?
>
>- Jeff
>
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