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Are all incoming attachments saved on disk?

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Lisa1990
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I'm moving away from using my old webmail to Thunderbird (imap) on linux. I noticed all messages are downloaded, and also all attachments to a file (/home/lisa/.thunderbird/xxxxxxx.default/ImapMail/imap.example.com/INBOX). Unsafe attachments also get stored in that file. Isn't that unsafe, or is it only unsafe if I decide to run/open the file from within Thunderbird?

Example: somebody mails me an virus. Because i use IMAP it gets stored in /home/lisa/.thunderbird/xxxxxxx.default/ImapMail/imap.example.com/INBOX) . I am still safe, as long as i don't open the unsafe attachment?

I'm moving away from using my old webmail to Thunderbird (imap) on linux. I noticed all messages are downloaded, and also all attachments to a file (/home/lisa/.thunderbird/xxxxxxx.default/ImapMail/imap.example.com/INBOX). Unsafe attachments also get stored in that file. Isn't that unsafe, or is it only unsafe if I decide to run/open the file from within Thunderbird? Example: somebody mails me an virus. Because i use IMAP it gets stored in /home/lisa/.thunderbird/xxxxxxx.default/ImapMail/imap.example.com/INBOX) . I am still safe, as long as i don't open the unsafe attachment?

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christ1
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While sitting in Inbox an attachment is encoded as plain text, and hence can't do any harm. It only can do harm if you're silly enough to deliberately open or run a malicious attachment.