RE: Status

["Mark Knecht" <mknecht controlnet com>]

> The virus works by infecting Outlook mail clients, randomly selecting an
> address from their address book to be used as the "sending" address,
> then sends the mail to all other addresses in the book.  So, someone
> who DOES have windows and outlook AND has my email address in their
> address book is infected and sending mail as if it were me.
>
> Before you go and start accusing people, you'd better get your
> facts right.

Darn right!

My question in this area is that I'm a Linux/Evolution user for email but
run two Windows boxes for my audio recording. I do not run a mail server. I
know I cannot be infected, at least today. If an email arrives and has an
infected attachment I'd like to do two things:

1) Since I may possibly be moving the attachment to a Windows box on my
network later, I don't want to save an attachment with a virus.

2) I'd like to be a good citizen and kill the attachment in case it's
something that I would forward to someone else who may very likely be a
Windows/Outlook user.

How can I do this in Evolution?

I do not really want to set up a mail fetch step unless it's really
required. I just hate to have more and more stuff running on my boxes.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mark