[Dovecot] DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE?

[David G. Miller]

"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?)
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>>
>
>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.

Cheers,
Dave

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