DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA (fwd)

[Mark Hertel]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:38:12PM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote:
> 
> What is this message doing in my mail folder?  And what would happen if I
> deleted it?  And let's just say for the sake of argument, that, umm, I
> /did/ delete it.  What should I do then, in this purely hypothetical case?
> 

This message is placed into the mail file by Imap clients or
servers. It is used as a marker for the last message downloaded.

I don't think anything bad happens if you delete it, other than
some headers might get downloaded again.

> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: 21 Aug 2001 17:13:25 -0400
> From: Mail System Internal Data
>     <MAILER-DAEMON at h00a024ee7419.ne.mediaone.net>
> Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
> 
> 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.
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