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Alyce Addertongue wrote:
> Could someone explain to me how this email text is being
> encoded/decoded?
You have not provided the entire message source, and this isn't actually
the ideal forum to do it. The proper way to copy the entire 'raw spam
with complete headers' or what I call 'smtp mime' is to select the item
unopened and unpreviewed [as a general rule for handling undesirable
mail in general, regardless of the insecurity of your OE/IE
configuration] and to use File/ Properties/ Details/ Message source
button. Having accessed that 'message source' you would select all and
copy and paste somewhere - probably not here, as some people don't want
to have to download ugly raw spam.
The most likely condition of what you received and pasted part of here
would consist of at least 3 different parts, the complete headers, and
then the body in multiparts -- where the first multipart is plaintext,
which you have pasted in here, and the subsequent parts were some other
condition, encoded b64 graphic, html, etc.
> Content-type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0001_01C69B79.EC8735B0"
That indicates the multiparts, and shows the mime boundary structure.
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Re-iterating the above header content type information now in the body.
> ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C69B79.EC8735B0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
The first part.
Then, you failed to produce any other part/s which are likely to have
been included.
Those other parts which you failed to show are an important part of the
spam. Normally there are a couple of different ways to 'show' ugly raw
spambodies around with complete headers. One way is for spamcop
reporters to feed the spamcop parser and to post a tracking url which
accesses the entire raw spam. Another way for nonspamcop reporters is
to post the raw spam into the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.sightings
according to the protocol and then to provide a link to that newsgroup
posting.
Sometimes a raw spambody is a big huge ugly mess of encoded binary.
--
Mike Easter
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