[Dovecot] Sieve mails with decoded subject

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Dec 10 20:37:37 EET 2009


On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 19:34 +0100, Johannes Bauer wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I accidently posted this message to dovecot-news and want to apologize
> for any trouble I may have caused. 

Don't worry. All mails there from non-trusted addresses simply get
discarded (or rejected?)

> Sadly, this didn't work - taking a closer look upon one of the spam
> mails, it seems the spamming rats have encoded the subject:
> 
> Subject: =?US-ASCII?B?RW5kbGljaCBtZWhyIGVuZ2FnZW1lbnQgaW0gQmV0dGNoZW4=?=
> (reads: "Endlich mehr engagement im Bettchen")

They're decoded at least in v1.2 with the new Sieve plugin. I don't
remember if CMU Sieve decoded them, I'm guessing not. So maybe it's time
for an upgrade?

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