Mark Richards wrote:
> Does clamav follow links in scanned emails?

Yes, but not by default.
http://www.clamav.net/doc/latest/man/clamd.conf.5.in

MailFollowURLs
If an email contains URLs ClamAV can download and scan them.
WARNING: This option may open your system to a DoS attack. Never use it on 
loaded servers.
Default: disabled 

> I can think of any number of reasons why this is a bad idea,

Me too.

> if it is going to follow links, wouldn't it make sense to follow them
> correctly? 

Yes, it would.  The relevant code is in ./libclamav/mbox.c, for the record.

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