bogus message in mbox

[Michael Hipp]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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).

I use dovecot with Maildir. Works swimmingly. Easy to configure and 
seems to be stingy with resources.

Michael