Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Frank Miller Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.thunderbird Subject: Re: Off Topic - request! Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:43:48 +0100 Organization: Tschorkauer Zwetschgen-Pressen-Museum Message-ID: <699767F4.9080701@backwurst.de> References: <10murth$plmk$1@dont-email.me> <10n1ln7$1nsqa$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <10n6vlg$3gbli$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <10n7bc9$3kjms$1@dont-email.me> <69975FE1.5060002@backwurst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="512744"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: noyb Cancel-Lock: sha1:tLftS9mI9NcKkGyLOkqiQlXpS9w= X-User-ID: eJwFwQcBwEAIBDBL0GfK4Rj+JTTRZ2ztYmqip1dBfaSy/IIJQHWvIWp8EkNI9TbsR1GJpR8yZhIP In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.thunderbird:19749 Andy Burns wrote: > Frank Miller wrote: > >> Andy Burns wrote: >> >>> Thunderbird has a setting to make the mail storage directory "easier" >>> for A/V to scan, I've never needed to enable it. >> >> Do you mean the difference between mbox and maildir? It's not for >> "easier" access but more a security function regarding A/V scanners. > > No, not the maildir/mbox setting. If you search for "virus" within the > settings page you get > > Antivirus > > Thunderbird can make it easy for anti-virus software to analyse incoming > mail messages for viruses before they are stored locally. > > [ ] Allow anti-virus clients to quarantine individual incoming messages. Ah, i see. They extended the mbox storage model. Windows-users will like it. ;-)