deleting emails directly

[Sven Schwedas]

On 2015-03-04 11:04, hw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> can I remove or delete emails from the imap directory directly (with rm) 
> without screwing things up?

I think cyrreconstruct can be used in such cases, but it's certainly not
the recommended way to delete mails.

> I'm running a virus scan over the spool directory and wonder how to get 
> those messages removed within which a virus has been found.  The easiest 
> way would be to let the virus scanner do this, and the virus scanner 
> doesn't use IMAP.

Wouldn't it be safer to integrate the virus scanner in your MTA's
processing pipeline, /before/ delivering it to clients that might
automatically download the viruses before your file-based virus scanner
has a chance to delete it?

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Sven Schwedas
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