I think the option is something like "--enable-uw-kludge". This will stop the message from appearing to the POP clients.
Alternatively, your users could use a MUA (mail user agent) that supports IMAP from their Desktop and laptop (away client)... Or they could just use a POP client for both. Regards, Gregory Hicks > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:09:57 -1000 > From: Clifton Royston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:30:46PM +0000, Oliver Egginger wrote: > > Sorry for (maybe) asking an FAQ. > > (I didn't found something usefull about this...) > > > > I'am using QPopper 4.03 > > Some of my pop-users receive messages like this one: > > > > > Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:19:56 +0200 (MET DST) > > > From: Mail System Internal Data <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > I belief that QPopper stores these kind of messages for internal use. > > No, it's created by uw-imapd and/or Pine - the University of > Washington's (uw) mail software packages. (Note the "X-IMAP" flag in > there.) It's an annoyance. Much of their software is an annoyance > IMHO, starting with their history of poor coding practices leading to > chronic security problems. (My personal bias, at any rate.) > > > But why it delivers those messages to some of my pop-users. > > And why he stores those messages (seemingly) only for some pop-users. > > (It never appears into my privat Mailbox and I'am using POP3 too (kmail/linux)) > > I entertain suspicion that it have something to do with there Mail-Clients, > > but I'dont know something specific. > > > > How can I prevent that messages like this one above will be send to my pop-users ? > > I believe qpopper has an option to suppress it. Alternatively, you can > also alter the options on Pine, at least, to avoid storing it in the > first place. I don't recall about their imapd. > -- Clifton > > -- > Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWJD? "JWRTFM!" - Scott Dorsey (kludge) "JWG" - Eddie Aikau --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Hicks | Principal Systems Engineer Cadence Design Systems | Direct: 408.576.3609 555 River Oaks Pkwy M/S 6B1 | Fax: 408.894.3479 San Jose, CA 95134 | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" --from the Cryptography list
