Michael Collette wrote:
>Unless I can be certain of a specific AV app working with Mozilla properly
>I can't advocate it's use. We know of two major apps that have difficulty,
>but we don't know if others have similar problems. What's worse, is that
>we don't know of any AV apps that are definitely not going to cause data
>loss.
>
Why don't you do the following:
1. You make sure that all your mail is being backed up automatically
independantly from Mozilla.
For example, all incoming mail for a certain user is additionally
forwarded to another account, which is never retrieved, but simply
stores all mail. Similar it could be done for outgoing mail, maybe
use a bit of Mozilla's help by bcc'ing that account all outgoing
mail (see Mozilla's "Copies and Folders" prefs).
2. You disable deletion of virii in your AV software.
You should do that anyway. Go to its prefs and tell it not to
delete infected files but instead warn you about it and maybe move
it into a "quarantine" folder. If the situation occurs again, you
manually delete the offending mail (you can easily do that with
mbox *g*) and copy the folder back to its original location in
Mozilla's profile (and back it up).
3. Use Mozilla Mailnews
4. You run yourself with that setup for a while.
This would proof that our assumptions are true and would allow us to
investigate other, problem-specific solutions.
Until now, we don't even know for sure what the exact reason for the
deleted inboxes was.
