Re: [Evolution] Deleting infected messages

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 02:02 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I've just run clamav on my system and have discovered a number of
> messages infected by viruses, which I would like to delete.

I wouldn't use the wording "messages are infected" here, as it's
extremely unlikely that a virus would be executed when opening such a
message. Normally they are attachments that you have to explicitly open
by clicking yourself, or embedded scripts in the HTML message that
cannot be executed in Evolution anyway as Evolution simply does not
support that. Also see
http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.4/net-email-virus.html

>   If this is done, can the index files be recreated by simply deleting
> all the files of these forms:
>         .foo.cmeta
>         .foo.ibex.index
>         .foo.ibex.index.data
> restarting evolution and waiting a while?  

Why would you want to delete these files? In Evolution you can delete
any email you don't want to keep (may it have a virus or not), so I
don't see any specific reasons for this question yet.

andre
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