On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 04:26 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> clamav probably will help along with clamav-milter to filter e-mail.
>> Lastly, nmh installed for everybody to use because you get out of mbox
>> format with that.  If clamav finds a virus in someone's mbox file and
>> quarrantines that whole file they just lost all of their email.  However
>> nmh puts each message in its own file and if clamav quarrantines those
>> files the user doesn't loose access to all of their e-mail just the
>> infected messages. Your mileage will vary.
>
> I don't like clamav for several reasons, but regarding to that email
> issue I suspect you're not completely right. I suspect you'll be correct
> for MUAs like Thunderbird/Icedove, that probably still use 1 file for
> all emails of one "folder". Kmail, Evolution and others nowadays use a
> mailbox format, that use a single file for each email.
>
> - Ralf
>

Thanks  Ralf and Camaleon for your feedback.

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