Scanning mail directory for viruses

[Ken Murchison]

dev at eth0.ch wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> before I try to run a virus check on the users mail directories I would
> like to get some feedback from the list.
> 
> What happens if the scanner detects a virus in the raw mail file and moves
> it from the box to a quarantine directory? Will the cyrus databases become
> corrupt?

If any messages are removed/altered, you'll have to run reconstruct on 
the mailbox in order to keep the index and cache files up to date.

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