Gibberish in Spam Mail

[John Seth]

   I've used both PostFix and Sendmail for mail servers, and if your able
to run your own box for sending/receiving email, SpamAssassin is not
enough. I have my systems set to use the relays.ordb.org,
sbl.spamhaus.org, proxies.relays.monkeys.com, and bl.spamcop.net.  If it
makes it through that, then I have SpamAssassin running through procmail
to filter it down more.

  - Tony

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Robert Todd wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 10:36, Mark T. Valites wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, hawkwynd wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Periodically, when I look through some of the spam I receive, there's
> > > garbled text, and words that are not real words
> >
> > I've seen a handfull of these slip through spamassassin for me over the
> > last month or so. I suspect the spammers are creating multi-part messages
> > with gibberish in plain text formatting, and the real spam in the html.
> > Often all I see in pine is the gibberish until I view the raw message, but
> > my users whose email clients happily render anything see both parts.
>
> That's one thing I like about the spam filter in my my all-in-wonder BBS
> package :)  It tends to catch EVERYTHING :)  Then again, it uses the
> SpamCop and MAPS RBL servers to check messages, too :)
>
> Robert Todd
> Admin, lupine.sytes.net
> Running Synchronet BBS v3.11b for Linux
>   on a Dell Optiplex GX100 Running Fedora Core1 Linux
> EMail (BBS/Home): warp.4 at lupine.sytes.net OR robert_todd at adelphia.net
> EMail (Work):  robert.todd at adelphia.com
>
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