Rajesh Fowkar forced the electrons to say:
> In each of my folders there is one message which says
> DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE - INTERNAL DATA FORMAT OF THE FOLDER ( something
> like this ) and it is visible along with my other mails. What this message
> means and can I safely delete this message. Why is it visible in all the
> folders.
I know this has been answered, but...
This particular mail is created by WU imapd to keep track of the status of the
mails in the mailbox. Whether they have been seen, deleted, answered etc. For
this, imapd uses a library which was developed at WU itself. pine, being the
brother of this imapd (which is shipped by default with most linux distros)
also uses the same library to access mailboxes. So, whenever a mailbox is
accessed via pine, this mail gets created. Since pine knows about this mail,
it doesn't display this mail when showing a mailbox index. But, other mail
clients (like mutt, in your case) don't know abou this mail, and they display
it.
You can safely delete it, but it will be created the next time you access this
mailbox with either pine or wu-imapd.
Binand
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