On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Burt wrote: > My research showed that the problem was that the temporary file that the > clamav plugin creates for clamav to scan does not contain the email's > envelope "From " header (that is, the From header without a colon). > Without that, clamav doesn't recognize the file as an email (or, in > clamav terms, mbox format).
That's a bug in clamav. The envelope sender is message metadata, not part of the message itself. Moreover, the "From " format is relevant to only one form of message storage - it's not intrinsic to mail messages in general. --- Charlie
