I recently modified procmail and recompiled it to deliver to
/home/user/Mailbox. Then I made a symbolic link between /home/user/Mailbox
and /var/spool/mail/user. Qmail's startup script on my box is identical to
the one in /var/qmail/boot/proc. Mail delivery works and pine.conf was
modified so pine gets the mail correctly in /home/user/Mailbox.
however, sometimes a very strange thing happens:
If mail is sent to the user on my system, and the user uses pine to read the
mail, and then deletes it, and then later checks their mail from the pop
server using outlook express or equivilent, they get the following email
message:
Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
Body:
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
If the user checks email via their pop, and doesn't use pine on the box, it
works fine, new mail is delivered to their mua and that strange message
isn't delivered. This strange message is only displayed if they have checked
mail via pine on the box itself first.
For a pop3 daemon I am using ipop3d executed via inetd. (its a small user
base)
the inetd line looks like:
pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
Anyone have any idea why users are getting this message if they check via
pine first? What is this important folder data?
Any help is appreciated.
Eric lalonde
