[Mimedefang] Virus scanning: ignore text/plain and text/html?

[David F. Skoll]

Matt Cuttitta wrote:

> It makes perfect sense to me to skip over the text/plain and text/html parts
> as I'm not sure how they could contain viruses.

You must use that mythical e-mail client that's bug-free and can handle
arbitrarily-malformed MIME messages safely. :-)

Here's an experiment:  Try sending this e-mail to an Outlook
client and seeing what it does:

From: foo
To: bar
Subject: Boo
Content-Type: text/plain; name="boo.exe"

Boo!!

Regards,

David.