During installation, PureMessage creates a directory structure for storing quarantined messages. This structure is created, by default, in the var/qdir directory beneath the PureMessage installation directory. Subdirectories are created beneath the qdir directory to store messages as they pass through various stages of quarantine processing.
Once quarantined messages are indexed, they are stored in the cur directory as individual files with numeric filenames equivalent to the message's Quarantine ID. Under the cur directory are a series of numbered directories. Each numbered directory stores the individual message files with corresponding numeric data. The first directory describes the number of digits in the filename. The next directory describes the first number (or series of numbers) in the filename. The following list illustrates where messages are stored:
4/1/1000 ... 1999 4/2/2000 ... 2999 ... 4/9/9000 ... 9999 5/10/10000 ... 10999 5/11/11000 ... 11999 ... 5/99/99000 ... 99999 ... 9/999/999/999999000 ... 999999999
A message with filename 1234, for example, is stored in the 4/1/ subdirectory. A message with filename 57453 is stored in the 5/57/ subdirectory.