On 10 Feb 1999q, Colin Telmer wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I guess I overlooked the fact that I upgraded pine recently. However, > in my understanding, these are only required if you pop or imap which I > don't do. If I am correct, those messages are used to keep track of items > like which mail has been pop'd so that you don't pop it again. I don't pop > anymore so I find them simply annoying. Maybe this will be the last straw > that moves me from Pine to Mutt (although I suppose Mutt could do the > same). Cheers. > > -- > Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <http://www.telmer.com> >
It's explained somewhere in the pine documentation; can't remember where. It never seems to happen now I've switched to mutt. And I've deleted them in mutt with no dire consequences. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)