bogus message in mbox

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>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?

Sounds like a good reason not to use dovcot (we use courier-imap
which uses Maildir storage).

The message would be at the position of the last seen message.

Bill
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