On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 06:56, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 07:16, Alberto M R Davila wrote: > > Thanks Charles, > > > > But... I have also viruses in my evolution mbox files: > > > > > //home/mine/evolution/local/KBD/mbox: Exploit.IFrame.Gen FOUND > > > //home/mine/evolution/local/2002/mbox: Exploit.IFrame.Gen FOUND > > This is one problem with the mbox format. To find the specific message > that has the infection you may be able to search the mbox file for the > name listed above "IFrame.Gen" or some variation of that. That is not entirely true. (search the archives for this subject -: ClamAV + worm in mbox file) > I have not tried this but that is about the only way you are going to > find the individual message in an mbox format. If maildir format was > used then each message would be in a separate file and this would be > easier to deal with. This can do the same thing for you in mbox format. This was suggested by Chrisof Damian (May 25 2004) formail < evilmbox -s thescript.sh > virusfreembox #!/bin/sh TEMP=`mktemp XXXXXX` cat > $TEMP clamscan --quiet --unzip --mbox $TEMP if [ $? == 0 ]; then cat $TEMP fi rm $TEMP After that, diff it to your org evolution mbox file. Hmm.. I think I've got to document this down in my "own" mini-howtos HTH --