Subject: What's this: 'DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA' ?

From: [email-masked] (Friedemann Baitinger)
Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 08:45:42 GMT

recently I noticed the following mail in my inbox for the first time:

| Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 18:11:39 +0200 (MET DST)
| From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON@localhost>
| Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
|
| 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.

Can anybody shed some light on this? Who put it in the inbox, is it
something sendmail 8.8.5 (I upgraded recently) does or does it belong
to PINE? I don't want this message in my inbox. If it needs to be
there, it should at least hide itself so that it doesn't confuse the
MUA.

-- 
Friedemann Baitinger      [email-masked]

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From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 09:13:12 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 8 May 1997, Friedemann Baitinger wrote:
[...]
>there, it should at least hide itself so that it doesn't confuse the

The message is put there by the University of Washington POP3 and IMAP
servers, ipop3d and imapd.  If you delete it, the POP3 and IMAP servers
may serve messages you've already seen (but nothing bad will happen).
Have you recently accessed your mailbox using Eudora, Netscape Navigator,
or some other POP3 or IMAP client?  If so, that's what resulted in
the message.

-- 
    Steve Coile           P a t r i o t  N e t      Systems Engineering
 [email-masked]      Patriot Computer Group        (703) 277-7737

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From: [email-masked] (Steve)
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 19:13:21 GMT

On Thu, 08 May 1997 08:45:42 GMT, [email-masked]

>there, it should at least hide itself so that it doesn't confuse the
Don't fool with it!! i did and wiped out important suff(folder info,
mail,etc) it's created by pine 3.95 and above that I have.

steve