On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Lars Hallberg wrote:
> Becose I'm sorting mail with procmail / foremail.

You should run procmail as part of the mail delivery process, before
messages reach into any mailboxes.

It sounds like your problem is that you are running procmail on mailboxes
after POP3 or IMAP servers have gotten to it.  That seems to be a very bad
idea.

> This means fireing upp mutt over the mailbox directly and move mail is
> harmfull to?

If it copies X-UID headers, yet.

> So basicly - everyone complaining about seeing the pseudo
> message is potentialy doing something bad?

Yes.

> But I don't need to care about POP, this is imap over ssl exlusivly. How
> harmfull is recreated UID:s for IMAP (if I shuld remove them all)?

The same warning about bad things apply to IMAP.  In fact, it is IMAP's
requirements that cause the necessity to recreate UIDs.

-- Mark --

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