deleting emails directly

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

--On 4. März 2015 05:33:44 -0600 John Wade <jwade at oakton.edu> wrote:

> The tool  we wrote for phishing scans the Cyrus imap server's imap spool
> file systems looking for a specific text string in specific user's
> mailboxes in recent messages.  Te search can be done either recursively
> or just the inbox.    It then looks for and replaces another specific
> text string (usually the phishing URL) with a string, like "Phishing URL
> removed by the Information Technology department".

Strictly speaking you would have to change the message's UID or the 
mailbox's UIDVALIDITY as well. Messages are guaranteed to be immutable by 
RFC 3501, section 2.3.1.1.
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