On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Ashwin wrote:
> Hi all ,
> > 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.
>
There's nothing wrong with the message and it *will* be recreated
even if u erase them. I don't know what it does, but I have not suffered
any problems after deleting it somany times.
Now I don't see this message when I use pine, pine does not show
that mail in the folder :) but the mail exists, in each of my mail
folders .
Got this from google search;
<http://cthulhu.ale.org/ale-archive/ale-1999-01/msg00233.html>
That message is a "book mark" used by imap to note where in the mail
file it left off. It's sort of a "read/not read" marker only not from the
point of view of the MUA but from the point of view of the imap daemon.
Imap allows you to keep mail on the central server. When it updates your
mailbox on the server, this is the last message at the end of your
mailbox. That way it knows that every message following the marker is one
that it has never seen. If you delete this message, imap will think that
all of the messages in the queue are new to it.
If you are checking or reading mail from an imap mail reader
(netscape, outlook, pine/imap, etc, etc) you will not see this message
since imap hides it. When you go back to a local reader that doesn't
gronk the imap marker, you then see it.
Leave it alone if you do any remote mail reading.
< but i do not know why it comes when using pop3, seems will have to do a
little bit more surfing :) >
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