DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE?

[Tom Diehl]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, David G. Miller wrote:

> "Knute Johnson" <knute at frazmtn.com> wrote:
> 
> >>>On Apr 11, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Knute Johnson wrote:
> >>>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>> I have a new install of FC5 running dovecot 1.0.0 beta 2.7.  I get my
> >>>>> mail with POP3 but I have a user using IMAP.  They both work great
> >>>>> but I keep getting a message from dovecot in my mail saying DON'T
> >>>>> DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA.  I think it is there to
> >>>>> help keep track of IMAP messages.  Since I use POP3 is there any way
> >>>>> not to have it show up all the time?  I've deleted it, I've deleted
> >>>>> my account and re-added it but it keeps coming back.  Dovecot is also
> >>>>> making a 'mail' directory in my ~ that I don't think I need.  What
> >>>>> can I do about this?
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Umm. So you're using Dovecot for both POP3 and IMAP? Dovecot  
> >>>shouldn't show that "internal data" message to clients at all, unless  
> >>>something breaks it (does it contain X-IMAP header?)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Timo:
> >
> >Sorry for the slow response, I was out of town for a couple of days.  
> >Below is the complete message.  It isn't available when I get my mail 
> >via POP3 but is there every time I run 'mail' from the command line. 
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >knute...
> >
> >
> >>From MAILER_DAEMON  Mon Apr 10 22:33:26 2006
> >Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:33:26 -0700
> >From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-
> >DAEMON at rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
> >Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA Message-
> >ID:
> ><1144733606 at rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> X-IMAP: 1144726293 0000000011 
> >Status:
> >RO
> >
> >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.  
> > -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...
> >
> I think these are a figment of upgrading IMAP folders.  I have seen them 
> after previous upgrades (RH9 to RHEL3?) and saw them on my server after 
> I upgraded it from White Box Linux 3 to CentOS 4.3 (effectively 
> upgrading from WU-IMAPD of RHEL3 to Dovecot under RHEL4.3).  Both this 
> time and in the past I have been able to safely delete these.  
> Unfortunately, I don't know of any way for them to be deleted for users 
> by the administrator.

They are left over from the use of pine. Pine uses them to keep track of
things. If you are not using pine you can delete them. If you use pine they
will come back unless you specifically configure it to not use them.

HTH,

Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com