deleting emails directly

[Ken Murchison]

On 03/04/2015 05:04 AM, hw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can I remove or delete emails from the imap directory directly (with rm)
> without screwing things up?
>
> 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.

Take a look at cyr_virusscan in Cyrus.  It currently only supports 
ClamAV, but it should be easy to add other scanners if needed.

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Principal Systems Software Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University