Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes

[Raquel]

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:38:38 -0700
"David M. Karr" <davidmichaelkarr at gmail.com> wrote:

> If I have clamav running an automated scan each night, and it finds
> a virus in my IMAP inbox, what good does that do me?  I have 156
> messages in my Inbox currently, and no way to know which one has
> the virus (although it's pretty likely it was one of the messages
> I've received in the last 24 hours).  It seems like it would be
> useful for clamav to have some sort of integration/knowledge with
> the mail system, so it can provide better information about which
> email message has a virus.  Is there any practical way to do this?
> Has this ever been considered?
> 

I don't know what your specific situation is.  However, on my mail
server, running Debian Lenny, clamav discards anything with a virus
in it.

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