From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 28 16:26:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA19958 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:26:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA19953 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:26:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA10963; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 10:55:47 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19971129105546.54267@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 10:55:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Bill Sandiford Cc: FreeBSD Questions mail list Subject: Re: Help with mail system References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Bill Sandiford on Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 10:50:53AM +0000 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 10:50:53AM +0000, Bill Sandiford wrote: > > Why does the following attached mail message occur. It is really > annoying. I cannot delete this message or move it to another folder or > the messagejust reappears. However, Every time I log on it tells me I have > new mail when really all I have is this stupid message. Is there any way > to stop this from occuring. What mail system is this? It is obviously trying to stop you from deleting it. If you don't like it, you could consider a different mailer. Greg > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 10:30:22 +0000 (GMT) > From: Mail System Internal Data > Subject: 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.