uuencoded att's not scanned by Mailscanner?

[Julian Field]

At 04:47 28/01/2002, you wrote:
>Are uuencoded attachments not scanned by Mailscanner? When I send a
>uuencoded eicar.com, the eicar.com attachment arrives at the destination,
>without
>being blocked by mailscanner.

Proper attachments that are uuencoded should be scanned by MailScanner.
However what you created wasn't a proper attachment, it was just inline in
the message without any proper MIME headers or anything.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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