On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 at  8:35:57 +0200, Thomas Lamy wrote:
> Philip Mak wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:34:41AM -0400, Flinn Mueller wrote:
> >>On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 12:13 AM, Philip Mak wrote:
> >>>When I scan a MIME message using ClamAV, can I just feed the raw
> >>>message into ClamAV, or do I have to use ripmime first to extract the
> >>>individual attachments into files first?
> >>
> >>No you don't have to use ripmime.
> >
> >Actually, I just found a message where if I clamscan the whole
> >message, it claims the message is clean, but if I save the attachment
> >file and clamscan that, it finds a virus.
> >
> >So I'm guessing ripmime is needed.
> >
> No. clam has it's own de-MIMe code. You have to use the --mbox option in 
> clamscan, or enable the ScanMail switch in your clamav.conf for clamd.

Option --mbox isn't perfect yet. Better "de-MIME" a message _first_.
Really.

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