Re: [Evolution] Deleting mail with virii?

[William Case <billlinux rogers com>]

Hi Ron;

On Tue, 2006-18-04 at 23:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 21:55 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > I have just installed and run clamav.  clamscan found 49 corrupted files
> > in ~/.evolution and ~/.evolution2.  Some of them from restored /home
> > files from previous versions of Fedora.  I am not blaming anyone.  What
> > I need to know is can I just go into my mail cache and delete those
> > infected email files?  Or will that screw up indexing or something?
>
> Is local mail cached?  For IMAP mail, here's what I'd do:

I don't use IMAP.  All the mail is downloaded from my rogers/yahoo.
Rogers is my cable company.

> > From an xterm prompt:
> $ acct=me\ haggis
> $ evolution --force-shutdown
> $ rm -rf ~/.evolution/mail/imap/${acct}/folders/INBOX
>
> Next time I open a folder on an IMAP server, Evo will re-cache what
> is necessary.

Some of the offending mail is in .evolution and some in .evolution2.
As you can tell, I have left learning about mail until later.  I guess
later is now.

Sample message from clamav:
"/home/bill/.evolution2/mail/pop/wmcase pop broadband rogers com/cache/31/ca59f62609ca94efc11383fe3827ee2c: 
Exploit.IFrame.Gen FOUND"

Regards Bill