that is normal and has nothing to do with sendmail it is part of POP3, the only way to 'get rid' of it is to use another POP server, the most efficient way to store data about read/received/unread/etc messages is to store it in the inbox itself. Most modern mail clients know what that message is and ignore it when downloading mail.
See the pine homepage for more details. nate On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Tom Warfield wrote: twarfi >Were running sendmail on a Debian box. Every know and again I get this twarfi >message: twarfi > twarfi >This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not twarfi >a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. twarfi >If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created twarfi >with the data reset to initial values. twarfi > twarfi >Where is this coming from and how do i get it to stop sending this. And if twarfi >we keep deleting it will this mess anything up? twarfi >Im not sure at all why were getting this message, but its anoying because i twarfi >have people calling me asking me what is this twarfi >and can i delete it? I have one guy in the office who has been here like twarfi >two years that has every single one of them in his twarfi >email folder which i find this kinda funny. twarfi > twarfi >You know actualy im thining with our virtual office we are running TWIG, and twarfi >im thinking that this is happening because of twarfi > something TWIG is doing. Im new to linux so im not sure...can anyone help twarfi >me out here? twarfi > twarfi >---Tom twarfi > twarfi > twarfi >-- twarfi >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null twarfi > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 9:02am up 111 days, 20:46, 3 users, load average: 1.90, 1.51, 1.46
