Re: Pine: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA

[dpk <dpk@egr.msu.edu>]

On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Brian Morgan wrote:

   This is a non-Linux question, but I was hoping someone could help
   me with a problem I'm having in pine.  We recently put the new
   version of pine on our Digital Unix machine which supplies email
   accounts for about 1000 users.  Many users use POP clients to
   access their mail, while our students use pine.
   
   Since the upgrade to the newest pine, users who normally use POP
   clients get the message (below) when they check their mail through
   pine.  The message only shows up when they go back to their POP
   client again (after using pine) to check mail.  Is there a setting
   in pine to not send out these FOLDER INTERNAL DATA messages?  Our
   POP users get really confused about such cryptic messages, and
   often swarm the help-line with fears of viruses and other nonsense!
   Can anyone help?
   
The answer to your question can be found in the release notes for pine
4 or at the Pine website:
  http://www.washington.edu/pine/

Scroll down to 'Noteworthy Items' and click on 'What are the messages
with the subject DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
about?'

Fyi,
Dennis
-- 
Dennis Kelly <dpk@egr.msu.edu>
Network Adminstrator
College of Engineering, MSU
353-4844 (phone)
222-5875 (pager)

   
   >X-POP3-Rcpt: rsnyder@panther.greenville.edu
   >Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:48:40 -0600 (CST)
   >From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON@panther.greenville.edu>
   >Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
   >X-IMAP: 0920418395 0000000002
   >
   >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.