On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Ole Craig wrote: > > I just ran the updated clamscan on my /var/spool/mail > directory, and came up with several dozen mailboxes that are infected. > Anyone know of a command-line tool I could use that would properly > lock said spools, scan each message within, delete those with viruses, > and then rebuild the spools in standard mbox format? I can probably > write such a thing, but it seems such an obvious Perl hack that I'm > thinking someone *must* have done it already and I hate reinventing > wheels (maybe because mine never seem to be quite round... :-)
Look at the perl manpages for Mail::Box and Mail::Box::Manager. That's what we use for stuff like that. It is pretty simple to use, even if you don't know perl that well. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
