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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 691d1bdc..76956024 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -231,7 +231,9 @@ immediately" in my logs.</a><br/> <a href="#O12">O12. Fetchmail no longer expunges mail on a 451 SMTP response.</a><br/> <a href="#O13">O13. I want timestamp information in my fetchmail logs.</a><br/> <a href="#O14">O14. Fetchmail no longer deletes oversized mails with ---flush.</a><br/> + --flush.</a><br/> +<a href="#O15">O15. Fetchmail always retains the first message in the + mailbox.</a><br/> <h1>Answers:</h1> @@ -3588,6 +3590,41 @@ oversized mails or both when a user specifies both <code>--limitflush</code> has been added to resolve the ambiguity.</p> <hr/> +<h2><a name="O15">O15. Fetchmail always retains the first message in the + mailbox.</a></h2> + +<p>This happens when fetchmail sees an "X-IMAP:" header in the very +first message in your mailbox. This usually stems from a message like +the one shown below, which is automatically created on your server. This +message shows up if the University of Washington IMAP or PINE software +is used on the server together with a POP2 or POP3 daemon that is not +aware of these messages, such as some versions of Qualcomm Popper +(QPOP):</p> + +<blockquote> +<pre> +From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Nov 23 11:38:42 2005 +Date: 23 Nov 2005 11:38:42 +0100 +From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON@imap.example.org> +Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA +Message-ID: <1132742322@imap.example.org> +X-IMAP: 1132742306 0000000001 +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. +</pre> +</blockquote> + +<p>As this message does not contain useful information, fetchmail is not +retrieving it. And deleting it might slow down the server if you are +keeping messages on the server, and the server would recreate it +anyways, that's why fetchmail does not bother to delete it either.</p> + +<hr/> + <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" summary="Canned page footer"> <tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home |