[SC-Help] Re: Thunderbird and base 64 spam

[hercules]

Hmm, I must correct this... I don't think I've explained this well enough.

It would be better for thunderbird to export the base64 decoded text with the 
embedded email addresses.
It would make it easier to report the spam back...

1. Thunderbird decodes the base64 7bit ascii data and displays it as a regular 
text message while viewing it in the message pane.
2. When you hit the control U to view the source, Thunderbird will not allow 
the user to view the text or message portion of the source. The message 
portion of the source data is base64 and hides the text portion of the spam 
message.
3. Normally base64 is for binary data.  Thunderbird is being used to hide the 
text portion of the data, in this case the text body of email and embedded 
email addresses.

Ant wrote:

> Base 64 *is* ascii, and that's what you'd see if the prog didn't
> decode it.
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