BTW, some people with anti-virus programs to sell for iMail don't want me to tell you this, but the standard Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate Edition client (or their server Anti-Virus "client") works fine to kill viruses on the iMail server because ** every incoming email gets converted to a file ** by iMail. The client just has to be set to scan ALL files, and to clean, (and if clean fails) then quarantine infected files.
That's like saying "Don't buy a car; buy a bicycle! It can go anywhere a car can go, and more!". :)
Specifically, your trick should work in cases where E-mails that are downloaded via web messaging (where IMail will decode the attachments before they are downloaded). But, it will not work for E-mails downloaded via POP3 or IMAP (since IMail doesn't decode them).
Worse, if an on-access virus scanner happens to a virus in an .mbx file, it will typically delete the entire .mbx file -- potentially deleting hundreds or thousands of legitimate E-mails with it. That's a very big risk to be taking.
And, other issues include very slow responses from the server, and confusion over completely blank E-mails.
There is a reason why there is a market for mailserver virus scanners. <G>
-Scott
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