[Spambayes] Does spambayes open and scan attachments too?

papaDoc papaDoc at videotron.ca
Tue Aug 3 19:46:29 CEST 2004


Hi Nova,


> My name is Nova and I wanted to know if Spambayes, in addition to 
> scanning emails, also opens or scans attachments?
I think Spambays can scan mime attachment.


> I'm worried about Spambayes opening (to scan) an attachment which 
> contains a virus too new for my anti-virus to detect, thus infecting my 
> system.
Don't worry Spambayes won't execute the virus since it only read email 
it does not execute them or hand them to program who can execute them.

Remi

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