Re: [Evolution] Deleting infected messages

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>]

On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 12:11 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > 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.

The problem is that clamav identifies the message by their filesystem
names, which are things like:
        /home/jonrysh/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/cur/1309978791.3344_2548.localhost.localdomain:2,S
It's not obvious which message (as evolution refers to it) this is.  I
can delete them using ordinary unix commands (rm, etc), but this would
seem to make the index files incorrect, so they would need to be
reconstructed.

Thanks for your help - jon