bogus message in mbox

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>I noticed that mboxes start with something like this:
> 	From MAILER-DAEMON Sat Oct 14 23:10:03 2006
> 	Date: 14 Oct 2006 23:10:03 +0100
> 	From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON at math.ist.utl.pt>
> 	Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
> 	Message-ID: <1160863803 at math.ist.utl.pt>
> 	X-IMAP: 1157659905 0000004736 NonJunk
> 	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.

This is inserted by UW-IMAP to mark the place of the last scanned message.

Bill
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