Problem with cyrus and deleting a message with a virus.

[Ted Cabeen]

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In message <Pine.LNX.4.53L-031.0301211614120.1888 at gobo-2.andrew.cmu.edu>, Rob S
iemborski writes:
>On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Mark London wrote:
>If you're messing around with the internal data stores of a program, and
>then you get upset when the program doesn't work, I'd say that you've
>created your own problem.
>
>If you really want to do this, convince your virus scanner to delete the
>files via the IMAP protocol instead of arbitrarly altering data structures
>that it knows nothing about.
>
>-Rob
>
>(Note that you can also rebuild the mailbox with the reconstruct command,
>but I don't recommend this as a general solution).

Right.  Other than losing the flags data, are there any other downsides to 
this solution?  (We were thinking of using this to delete old messages from 
users spam folders)

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