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Re: newer generation of spam



On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:23:15PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 12:15:42AM -0400, Graeme Tank wrote:
> 
> >    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~graemet/newerspamformat.html
> 
> Hate to break it to you, but there's nothing new about that.  They've
> been doing it for a long time now.  One option, stop allowing HTML mail,
> but you've already stated you don't see that as viable.  Another option
> is to filter all e-mail through stripmime:
>    
>    http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html
> 
> Downside of this route is that all non-plain-text parts are removed.
> So, you may need to setup an account for recieving attachments.

Just a thought:
Would mimedefang be appropriate for this?  I've never used it, but looking
through the docs on its website it looked like it had some sophisticated
abilities to define different behaviours for different mime-types.  You 
could for example have it pipe html mail through lynx -dump or html2text.
Seems a bit less drastic than bouncing all html mail or stripping *all*
non-plaintext content...

	Cheers!
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