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[Bug 6260] New: text attachments are not scanned if the MIME type is APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM

https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6260

           Summary: text attachments are not scanned if the MIME type is
                    APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM
           Product: Spamassassin
           Version: SVN Trunk (Latest Devel Version)
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5
         Component: spamassassin
        AssignedTo: dev@spamassassin.apache.org
        ReportedBy: jhardin@impsec.org


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spample

A new practice for bypassing SA content scanning is to put the text into an
attachment using the APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM MIME type. If the filename is 
_mumble_.txt or _mumble_.html? SA should still try to scan the attachment.

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[Bug 6260] text attachments are not scanned if the MIME type is APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM

Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6260

John Hardin <jh...@impsec.org> changed:

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   Target Milestone|3.3.1                       |Future

--- Comment #2 from John Hardin <jh...@impsec.org> 2009-12-18 06:27:27 UTC ---
I think I disagree with that yardstick when in most MUAs it's only a
double-click to view the payload, and in most cases the only automatically
visible (and scoreable) content is "please read the attachment".

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[Bug 6260] text attachments are not scanned if the MIME type is APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM

Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6260

Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> 2009-12-17 09:43:21 UTC ---
Are they _displayed_ by any MUAs?  that's the question ;)

if a part is not displayed, there isn't any point in us scanning it.

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