On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 06:00:28PM -0500, Soren Harward wrote:
> On Tue 02 Feb 1999 at 23:21:20, Peter van Dijk muttered:
> > On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 02:46:10PM -0500, Soren Harward wrote:
> > > I use both Mutt and IMP (a webmail program) to read my mail, and the
> > > "Internal Mail Data" messages that the imap server keeps leaving in my
> > > mailboxes are getting annoying. Is there a way to tell Mutt to
> > > ignore them?
> >
> > Why not configure the imap server not to insert them?
>
> Hmm, I would if I knew how.
They're needed for IMAP (as long as you use mbox folders anyway) in that
they retain crucial state about your mailbox.
The most obvious of which is the 'UIDVALIDITY' values: each item in your
mailbox is assigned a specific Unique Identifier that IMAP guarantees to
be monotonically increasing. This is crucial for stateless uses such as
web based email. Do you really want to blindly delete the 7th item in
your box, or would you rather delete an item with a unique ID?
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