Hi folks,

Since an email relay sits mere seconds away from malware generation, one can
accept that not all viruses would get caught..  I've however heard reports
from downstream that a next relay in line is catching some viruses that got
missed by our amavisd-new setup.  Also using ClamAV.

Now, before making assumptions or trying to test this elusive suspicion, I'd
like to run this question by the list first: Do you think that scanning a
directory filled with MIME unpacked email bits should be more, less, or
equally as reliable as scanning the raw email file?  In practice, do you
think that Clam or whatever might use the extra "information" of malicious
payload sitting snugly surrounded by it's MIME encoding?  In short, which
option is best, pointing the AV components of amavisd-new at the raw file or
at the pieces?  Thanks for any advice!

my regards,
Riaan
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