Hi,
what's the purpose and the impact of the option - treat files as mailboxes ?

thanks and best regards

LO

When you have set your scanner to "Remove" or "quarantine" files, it will automatically move/delete files in which it detects a virus. Some email clients (like Thunderbird) use a single file to store your complete mailbox (all the emails you received so far). If ClamWin would detect a virus in this file, all your emails would be lost every time you received an infected email.

If you set this option however, clamwin will see that this file is a mailbox and therefore it will NOT be moved or removed, you will just be warned about it (you can then remove suspicious emails using your email client).

regards,
Peter

not quite that. Mailboxes are not quarantined/removed without any options set - loosing your emails is quite dangerous.
Treat files as mailboxes option will process an email message (.eml, RFC822), etxtract and scan all attachments. This option is useful on mailservers but may yield longer scanning time for normal users. Mail files are not directly executable therefore there is little harm in not extracting attachments from there during an ordinary scan.

ok seems i misunderstood that, thanks for correcting alch.