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

From: [email-masked] (Friedemann Baitinger)
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 21:08:40 GMT

[email-masked] (Allan Ware) wrote:

>  Can Someone tell me about this mail that is in every inbox on my
>  system please and how to get rid of it, it is buging the crap out of
>  me :)

I had the same problem a few weeks ago and I also posted a message
here which reads very similar to yours. It turned out to be the
IMAP/POP3-server which came with the package: 'imap-4.1.BETA'
(University of Washington).

You're probably doing something similar to what I did: I accessed my
mailbox, which resides on a Linux host, from a Win95 machine using the
POP3 protocol. 'ipop3d' on the Linux machine put the 'Don't delete...'
message in the INBOX on the Linux machine. It is used to maintain some
state information regarding which messages have been accessed already
by the client machine. You can safely delete the message. The worst
thing which can happen is if you run your POP3 client again, it will
re-fetch emails which it has seen already.

Does this explain the problem good enough? 

-- 
Friedemann Baitinger      [email-masked]

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 10:53:01 -0700

On Mon, 26 May 1997, Friedemann Baitinger wrote:
> You can safely delete the message. The worst

It is NOT safe to delete that message.  Please do not spread false
information.  I wrote "DON'T DELETE" in big block letters for a reason.

The next version of Pine will depend upon that message for better
performance.  Deleting that message will cause a substantial slowdown.

The moral: when it says "Don't touch", pay attention.  Otherwise, when you
burn your hand you will not get much sympathy.

-- Mark --

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