[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: Base 64 garbled

[Mike Easter]

Rob wrote:
> "Mike Easter"
>> Rob wrote:
>>> I receive a newsletter from the Global Ideas Bank, but, they send it
>>> in Base 64!!!

It's not really the b64 that is the fault here, it is what spam motel is
doing to the structure.

>> Besides emailing it as an attachment to the gmail, you could also
>> paste it into the webparser, copy the tracker url, and cancel the
>> report.

> Just got back from another work shift, will send it all shortly

I got the tracker link at my gmail.  If you don't want me to post the
tracker here so others can see it I won't.

Spam motel is screwing up the whole thing.  They are sticking their
crappy banner into the 'structure' and aren't handling the mime
correctly.  I'm no expert at this stuff, but what you have gotten is
clearly a mess caused by spam motel's alteration of the original
improperly to put in their banner.   I think the software for inserting
the banner wasn't 'expecting' the b64.  OE may be noncompliant in some
areas, but that structure is a mess that isn't the fault of OE to not be
able to unscramble.

I've removed the spam motel stuff 'carefully' [after a few experiments
in which I screwed it up] and if you would like for me to post the
tracker of what your item should have originally looked like I will.
That is, I've put it into the parser and I have a tracker.  What you
would do is go to the tracker copy it and cut off the top little part
and save it as 'something.eml' and then open that item and it is like
the way you should've received the item in the first place if spam motel
hadn't screwed it up with their banner insertion into the middle of the
b64.

I can take the item which I have saved as 'Rob2.eml' and open it in my
OE and everything is perfectly fine.  I can open it without rendering
the html and it is fine, and I can open it with rendering the html and
it is fine.  My 'specimen' has 2 different b64 sections, one in
plaintext and one in html, and they both decode just fine.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin