Re: MAILER-DAEMON@telmer "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE"
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 10:35:46AM -0500, Colin Telmer wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
>
> > Did you read the message? The one which is planted locally here states:
> >
> > ==========================================================
> >
> > Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:38:57 +0000 (GMT)
> > Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
> > X-IMAP: 0897750745 0000110670
> >
> > This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
> > a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software.
> > If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created
> > with the data reset to initial values.
> >
> > ==========================================================
> >
> > so it looks like a really bad idea to delete it (unless you have no other
> > mail in your folder). And it's not created by netscape, but by the mail
> > software itself.
>
> I guess I overlooked the fact that I upgraded pine recently. However,
> in my understanding, these are only required if you pop or imap which I
> don't do. If I am correct, those messages are used to keep track of items
> like which mail has been pop'd so that you don't pop it again. I don't pop
> anymore so I find them simply annoying. Maybe this will be the last straw
> that moves me from Pine to Mutt (although I suppose Mutt could do the
> same). Cheers.
>
It's not dependent on which mail program you use - mutt or pine. On my
server all acounts which use imap have such "things" in mailboxes so I
guess its form imapd. But absolutely you should try muttt - it very nice
piece of cake.
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