"Knute Johnson" <knute@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA Message-
ID:
<1144733606@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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