KevinW Posted January 23, 2003 Posted January 23, 2003 I may post this to the Help Desk, but thought I'd check with others here first. I was working with one of my customers this morning - they were having problems getting their email. I resolved their problems, but in retrieving their email messages, the following one appeared - and I was curious if anyone has seen this themselves: From: Mail System Internal Data [mailto:MAILER-DAEMON@server5.totalchoicehosting.com]Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:45 AM 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. Thanks, -kw Quote
TCH-Rick Posted January 23, 2003 Posted January 23, 2003 I got the same message today. I wasn't having any problems but noticed the message when setting up a filter to move some messages to a particular folder. I'm not using IMAP. Quote
KevinW Posted January 23, 2003 Author Posted January 23, 2003 Customer is using Outlook 2002, and I believe they created the email account as a POP3 account in Outlook. It's possible they received the email while they were having problems. -kw Quote
rayners Posted January 23, 2003 Posted January 23, 2003 I'm trying to remember where I've seen that message before. It's been a number of years. Maybe it was in Pine? Quote
TCH-Rick Posted January 23, 2003 Posted January 23, 2003 I did a google search on the Don't Delete this message string and found that it is not an uncommon occurence. The following link was a pretty complete explanation: Explanation Online Looks like you were right about the IMAP and Pine connections, rayners. Quote
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