[vchkpw] Pulling raw messages out of a maildir

[Dave Richardson - Lists]

I have a filter that moves incoming "virus found" msgs in my Admin 
account to a subfolder so that I can observe what kind of virus 
flow/traffic is hitting my domains.  I had intended to write a little 
perl/mrtg processor and make some pretty graphs to WOW! my customers.

And then.... this asswipe SoBig variant worm hits this week and I've got 
thousands of "virus found" notices now, still arriving at almost 1 per 
minute.

I want to physically pull the mail message files out of the Admin user's 
"virus found" folder (below INBOX) and just save them in a tar.gz file 
until I write my scripts and process them.

Q: Any harm in leaving qmail/vpopmail up and running while working at 
the file system level to move the messages out of the Maildir tree?
I DO NOT want to risk damaging this account, since it's my real Admin 
account.

Help appreciated.
Thx,D.