Hey John, First off, n.p.m.mail-news is a Mozilla <http://www.mozilla.org/> news group. You probably want to go to <http://home.netscape.com/> to find the correct groups for Netscape browser support.
John Gilman wrote: > followed by 3 apparently identical > messages with sender Mail System Inter... and Subject "DON'T DELETE > THIS MESSAGE-- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA". These messages do what their subject says - they store internal data about the folders on your mail server. They are used by the uw-imap server and perhaps others. This IMAP server is useful because it can be used as a drop-in replacement for a POP3 server, but is annoying because it litters your mailbox with these control messages. > Those 3 Mail System Inter... messages seem to be indentical even to > the exact second sent. Why can't I delete 2 out of the 3 of them? I *very seriously* recommend that you *do not* delete those messages. The mail server depends on their existance to function properly. The reason why you can't delete the last one is because most likely it describes the internal state of your inbox, and gets locked by the mail server when you access it. It may well be disasterous if you manage to sucessfully delete it. The best thing for you to to is to contact the people who run your mail server and get them to upgrade to a less intrusive IMAP server - Cyrus is a good example. That way, these control messages will go away and everyone will be happy. HTH, Mike. -- Mike Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Every motive escalate." Blatant self-promotion: <http://web.vee.net/>
