Author: hantslug Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Is it safe to delete... (Episode 2 of virus saga)
Thanks, John and Jim -
On Saturday 03 Feb 2007 14:32, john lewis wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 13:40:00 +0000
>
> hantslug@??? wrote:
> > I have now found (by using cat - why did I not think of it
> > before :-()
> > that
> > /home/peter/.mozilla-thunderbird/30ipc2uz.default/Mail/mailhost.zen.co.uk
> > contains a file called Inbox which is very long. Can I safely
> > delete it?
>
> I doubt it, it is probably the file containing all his email messages
> in one big file. 'Tis why I prefer MH format which keeps each email as
> a separate file
Yes, I think it is... That's why I asked first.
So I now have a dilemma. Follow Jim's suggestion and $ cat /dev/null > Inbox
or hope that the emails repopulate. There is no virus in the files
in /home/peter/Mail, so it is purely in this, perhaps unimportant, file and
one other file elsewhere in .mozilla-thunderbird. The problem is that most
of his correspondents use HTML and Lookout - and love attachments - so I feel
that he has a social responsibility to get rid of viruses....
And yes, John, I agree. That is why I use KMail myself. But I initially
needed to give him an email client that was/is transparently simple and
unthreatening and needing no knowledge or memory. (Not that Peter has no
memory - but panic turns it off ;-) )
Now he greets any suggested change with horror. Not because he could now not
use anything else - he even uses other people's IE on Doze m/cs when
housesitting - but he _likes_ his system. Even when, last month, I changed
his 6/7 year old 17 inch Iiyama for a brand spanking new 17 inch TFT he
muttered darkly: "I can see why you want to do it, but I like my monitor."
I daren't change his email client!!
