Thanks, Scott.  I constructed 2 tests anyway, one with an executable in
an attached .eml file and one where that executable is a virus.

It *looks* like this is a special case, i.e. where all unpacked
attachments, including .smd are unpacked, and then the folder scanned:

So with a single message, the .smd file is not scanned.  If an
attachment is itself an .smd file, it will be scanned and also all of
the attachments that need to be unpacked and scanned.  Ditto for .mim
attachments that contain an executable.

I haven't trotted out Winternals FileMon to verify that though... I'm
guesstimating based on what I see at DEBUG level.

I'd agree with Bill Landry and also request that Declude implement a
switch in virus.cfg that lets us choose whether to scan the "native"
email and all "native" attachment formats.

Since you wrote that optimization into Declude, the antivirus scanners
have progressed.  F-Prot has the /dumn and /server options, and McAfee
has the /MIME option.

Andrew 8)

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>Also, does Declude recursively unpack MIME segments, if one of the 
>attachments is itself a .eml file or .smd file, would any attachments 
>inside it be unpacked and the scanner(s) called on those?

Yes.

                                                    -Scott
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