I don't think this has anything to do with Seamonkey per se,
Neil.  The error message you are seeing is almost certainly
generated by the distant end (i.e., the receiving mail server)
which is operating in paranoid mode.

Philip Taylor
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Neil Winchurst wrote:
> I can send an email with an attachment without any problem. However if I 
> receive an email with an attachment and then try to forward it on to someone 
> else it appears to go all right. Then I get a message that the email failed 
> to be delivered. Here is the error message....
> 
> This message has been rejected because it has
>     a potentially executable attachment "testing attachments.eml"
>     This form of attachment has been used by
>     recent viruses or other malware.
>     If you meant to send this file then please
>     package it up as a zip file and resend it.
> 
> I don't understand this. I can send a new email with an attachment but I 
> can't forward one that was previously sent to me.
> 
> Incidentally the attachment was not executable. If it is relevant I am using 
> Linux Mint 10 KDE.
> 
> Can anyone help please?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Neil
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