bogus message in mbox

[Jorge Almeida]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:

> 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.
>
The IMAP server in use here is dovecot, but I suppose it works the same
way. This means that the bogus message may not be at the beginning of
the mbox file, right?
-- 
Jorge