Rot135 files

Hugh · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:47 am Post subject: Rot135 files

What are the rot135 files in the MW directory? What do they do?

Hugh

rogerw · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 6:06 am Post subject:

These are the new version of the training/recycle bin files that are slightly encrypted so that virus scanners don't do strange things to them when people add virus-ridden emails to their training and/or recycle bin.

One of the recent problems was that virus scanners set to automatically clean files were changing the files - and that was causing MW much heartburn.

Encryping them (basically, using a substitution code on individual characters) keeps the virus scanners happy and keeps them from making MW unhappy.

If you're bothered by the old .mbox versions of the files that are still in the same directory, you can delete the old .mbox files if you so desire.

Hugh · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 3:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the info, rogerw.

Hugh


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