Subject: Re: FOLDER INTERNAL DATA

From: Florian Kolbe <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:05:18 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Mike Miller wrote:

MM> Why does the new version of Pine add a message like the following to the
MM> beginning of every folder? (I added the '>'s along the left so as not to
MM> confuse your mailer.)
MM> 
MM> >From MAILER-DAEMON Sun Jul 12 12:28:57 1998
MM> >Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:28:57 -0500 (CDT)
MM> >From: Mail System Internal Data <[email-masked]>
MM> >Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
MM> >X-IMAP: 0900019774 0000000063
MM> >Status: RO
MM> >
MM> >This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
MM> >a real message.  It is created automatically by the mail system software.
MM> >If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created
MM> >with the data reset to initial values.

And if cat two folders together, what happens? Now the second 'pseudo'-mail
DOES show up in pine. Which one does pine use? Can I delete the second one?
What should be the policy on the second one? Should pine delete it automatically?
Should pine tell me I have a 'corrupt' folder?

(sigh)

Florian

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From: Paul Kraus <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:07:23 -0400

> Should pine tell me I have a 'corrupt' folder?

I have been using the Sun IMAP server for months, accessing it with both
Pine (3.96) and Netscape Messenger. The IMAP server creates these
entries for internal housekeeping, and does not appear to serve them out
to the mail client.

I have deleted them as well as concatenated multiple files (folders)
together without any ill effects (except perhaps a small performance hit
as the IMAP server re-generates them).

If these entries are being generated in LOCAL mail spool files, I
suggest that Pine 4.0 is using IMAP internally to access these files.
(just my guess based on observations and comments made to this list).

I was actually planning on adopting Pine 4.0, but have not had the time
yet.

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From: Henrik Edlund <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 15:20:11 +0200 (CEST)

> (just my guess based on observations and comments made to this list).

Question is now: How do I turn of this unwanted "feature".

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