Mydoom Virus getting Through

[Jan-Peter Koopmann]

Hi Julian,
 
> This message does not have the right MIME structure for the 
> MIME-tools to be able to open it, as it is a text/plain 
> messsage that just happens to contain text which contains a 
> mime structure. So MIME-tools quite fairly won't extract the 
> attachments from within it.

Would that not also mean that these messages would not expand correctly on the usual MUAs and therefore do not really pose a threat?

Regards,
  JP