[Dovecot] Hot to get rid of \"DON\'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE\" messages?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 14:09 +0300, foxx at freemail.gr wrote:
> I'm using Dovecot 1.0.0 (mbox) with Postfix 2.4 on my FreeBSD box, as a pop3-only server (imap is disabled). All account mailboxes are accessed using Outlook clients.
> 
> I've noticed that, whenever I'm retrieving mail with pop3, a "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE" is created in mbox. Although these messages are never sent to client MUAs, I found them very annoying.
> 
> BTW I don't use (or used before) UW or Pine or any other c-client, therefore I assume it's a Dovecot issue. Previously I was using Cyrus and never had such a problem.
> 
> Any idea how this can be fixed?

It's a feature. You can't get rid of them. They're especially important
with IMAP to avoid untrusted messages from messing Dovecot's UIDs.

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