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[SC-Help] Re: false multipart header, Spamcop misses URL in body

Graeme Leith glnews030922 at highspot.net
Tue Sep 28 17:48:29 EDT 2004


Mike Easter wrote:

> That's because you are acting like a human bean, which in some capacities
> is a lot smarter than an algorithm.  You are humanly looking at the
> content type and determining that it is text/html and changing the
> headerline accordingly.
> 
> The parser has to deal with content type multipart alternative
> appropriately.
> 
> Altho' I asked it previously, you haven't said how if you were an
> algorithm instead of a human bean, you would go about parsing a spam
> whose headers contained content type multipart alternative.  Would you
> change them all to text/html, or do it some other way?

Ironically, since JT upgraded to SA 3.0, every one of my mails that SC 
has failed to find links in has had an SA tag of URIBL_SC_SURBL.

Perhaps Julian could use the MIME handling and URI detection algorithms 
from SA to improve SC.

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