Re: [Fwd: [alex () yuriev com] Confirmation of your message requested]

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () outblaze com>]

Stephen J. Wilcox  [3/9/2004 2:35 AM] :

> > It turns out tha message I forwarded had a "null.eml" attachment
> > that I did not notice and remove.
> >
> > I am now being mailbombed by AV software all over the place!
>
>
> The attachment is rfc822, it has a null name. Looks ok to me.. broken AV?

At least one open source virus scanner has a cookbook config that treats 
.eml as an "executable attachment"  and discards email that has a .eml 
attachment.

Makes for fun when forwarding an OE generated email using Thunderbird, 
I've found.

        srs

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