On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 03:52, Ken Murchison wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > before I try to run a virus check on the users mail directories I would > > like to get some feedback from the list. > > > > What happens if the scanner detects a virus in the raw mail file and moves > > it from the box to a quarantine directory? Will the cyrus databases become > > corrupt? > > If any messages are removed/altered, you'll have to run reconstruct on > the mailbox in order to keep the index and cache files up to date.
I do this (run a virus scan, quarantine messages, and reconstruct mailboxes where messages were changed) on a nightly basis via a cron job. It works well, and helps weed out the odd ".zip" wrapped virus that makes it past MimeDefang before our virus scanner gets the new definitions. Craig Ringer --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
