Dominic Mitchell <dominic(_at_)cedep(_dot_)net> writes:
I have been receiving messages ( see below ) where the body is
just full of strings with a combination of '=' capital letters
and numbers. I would like to filter out but I am not sure how to
do it. Any help is very appreciated.
This is what I have in the body of the messages:
C7=D7=B0=AE=B5=C4=C5=F3=D3=D1=A3=BA
=C4=FA=CF=EB=D3=B5=D3=D0=D7=D4=BC=BA=B5=C4=B9=FA=BC=CA=B6=A5=BC=B6=D3=F2=
=C3=FB=C2=F0=A3=BF
Looks like the message was sent with a MIME content transfer encoding of
quoted printable. The message probably has a Content-Transfer-Encoding:
header of "quoted-printable". Check out RFC2045. There are several
programs that decode this including the original mimencode program,
munpack, and others.
Note that the above text, when decoded, is effectively binary: all the
above characters have the high-bit set. It looks alot like some spam
I've seen coming through recently, so unless you know the person sending
the above, I would just through it out. Harumph, it should have been
encoded in base64 anyway...
Philip Guenther