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?
>
> Sorry for not just continuing my previous thread about viruses. The email
> hasn't arrived in my inbox yet. :-(
I'm guessing your are using POP3 for you e-mail protocol, otherwise if
you were using IMAP4, you Inbox would be on the e-mail server. I
wouldn't delete you Inbox, but rather clear it from the command line with:
$ cat /dev/null > Inbox
This will remove all messages in your Inbox while leaving the
permissions intact to whatever they were. You may be able to delete
your Inbox and depend on Tbird to safely recreate it when you re-start
thunderbird, but I don't know for sure if Tbird will do this, hence I
suggest the cop out of just clearing down the fill to zero length.
YMMV
>
> TIA
> Lisi
>
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