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



There's a FAQ on pine's website that answers your question.

http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/non-UW.html

Regards
Sarel Botha

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?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian Morgan
> bmorgan@greenville.edu
> 
> 
> >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.
> >
> 
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