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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob S iemborski writes: >On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Mark London wrote: >If you're messing around with the internal data stores of a program, and >then you get upset when the program doesn't work, I'd say that you've >created your own problem. > >If you really want to do this, convince your virus scanner to delete the >files via the IMAP protocol instead of arbitrarly altering data structures >that it knows nothing about. > >-Rob > >(Note that you can also rebuild the mailbox with the reconstruct command, >but I don't recommend this as a general solution). Right. Other than losing the flags data, are there any other downsides to this solution? (We were thinking of using this to delete old messages from users spam folders) - -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Website or Keyserver for PGP/GPG Key BA0349D2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE+Lb10oayJfLoDSdIRAruBAJ47lR+8YkN3UwjBLE4KCBD0lwVsVACgpbwD 0xC2+RXRVadgscm59feoPP4= =YLop -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----