Hello again Sam, ======= On 2003-03-30 at 12:36:00 you wrote: =======
>Thanks for your reply, Jake. My Nettamer inbox is over 2MB. Unlike >an Arachne inbox which in its raw form consists of individual text >files, a Nettamer inbox in its raw form consists of just one very long >concatenated text file in which all the messages have separator symbols >inserted between individual messages. The file is not zipped. Is your >Foxmail inbox in its raw form a zipped file consisting of just one very >long concatenated text file? The Foxmail mailboxes may indeed be opened in a text editor and read as one file with separator symbols. I find this a convenient way to search archived mail. When unzipped, the individual messages are spat out as text files. >Perhaps F-prot is capable of indentifying email viruses only when it is >examining individual message files one at a time. It appears to not >work at all in finding viruses in concatenated mail. As I said, there's the 500,000 byte watershed with Foxmail (which I assume is saving the mail in concatenated form). I ought to try my small collection of viruses to see if they're all susceptible to the mailbox size limit. Perhaps you could try it on a zipped zipfile? Regards, Jake Young 2003-03-31 09:25:39 BST (GMT +1)
