Encoded Subject?

[News Group]

Hi,

I use Outlook 2003.

I received a message with the following subject: Become a member and you
could win £2500!

As this e-Mail evaded my anti-spam rules, I checked the message header and
found the subject to be:

Subject:
=?Windows-1252?B?QmVjb21lIGEgbWVtYmVyIGFuZCB5b3UgY291bGQgd2luIKMyNTAwIQ==?=

The only part of this I recognise is the character set identifier
Windows-1252.

Can anyone tell me how the subject in the message header and the subject
displayed in my inbox are different?

Thanks.

Colin

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

outlook can decode it for viewing, rules can't.

 

[News Group]

Hi Diane,

Thanks for the very quick response.

Is this some form of encryption?

Colin.

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| | > Hi,
| >
| > I use Outlook 2003.
| >
| > I received a message with the following subject: Become a member and you
| > could win £2500!
| >
| > As this e-Mail evaded my anti-spam rules, I checked the message header
and
| > found the subject to be:
| >
| > Subject:
| >
=?Windows-1252?B?QmVjb21lIGEgbWVtYmVyIGFuZCB5b3UgY291bGQgd2luIKMyNTAwIQ==?=
| >
| > The only part of this I recognise is the character set identifier
| > Windows-1252.
| >
| > Can anyone tell me how the subject in the message header and the subject
| > displayed in my inbox are different?
| >
| > Thanks.
| >
| > Colin
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Brian Tillman]

Is this some form of encryption?

It's a different Latin character code page.
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1252.mspx