Sorry René it took me so long to answer. First I usually read the manual and I did it here too. The linux world and the unix command line system is far from being my second language i.e. it looks like marshian language to me quite often probably because I didn't use it much yet. And also the manual pages go straight to the thing so that when one lacks some background (like me) it is hard to understand what a command (and the options) do(es). Anyway I tried your proposition and it did not do it either. I solved my problem by installing Claws-mail. It is possible to import mailbox type folders (and transform them to maildir type) as well as the other way around. What I discovered this way is that thunderbird (at least the version I had installed) never really erase the messages. They are kind of hiden. Also when you move them through different folders they are stored in multiple copies which can amount to quite a lot a disk space. This is true for the junk too. So with a good spam filter I didn't care much about that junk since it was deleted directly. And until recently I did not pay much attention to viruses since under linux ... That is how I ended up keeping 44 viruses in my thunderbird folders without knowing it. clamav could only "see" one but it is not possible to remove them since they are not accessible (I did not find a way to access them anyway). I don't know if such hiden viruses can be "reactivated" by some kind of malware, but I switched to Claws-mail with spamassassin and clamav and it's being great !
Le Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:58:06 -0500, René Berber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Pascal Duchatelle wrote: > > > I don't understand how formail works. [snip] > > You have to read the manual... from the examples in `man formail` I > would guess that you need something like: > > formail -Ys < old_mailbox | tee temp.file | clamdscan --quiet - && > cat < temp.file >> new_mailbox > > (is one line) > - -- > René Berber > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFF+IwOL3NNweKTRgwRCKBfAJ94pCs4XH5J9rKEmxZ9JFrL4tq+4wCgjDSg > dgqIMO8nbqt7oJFyzd712dM= > =s1y6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit > http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html ___________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail r�invente le mail ! D�couvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface r�volutionnaire. http://fr.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
