MAIL MESSAGES WITH THE SUBJECT "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER
INTERNAL DATA" (UPDATED)

Many users who use pine sometime and other email programs at other times
(pop, elm, mailx) are noticing a message in their INBOX, and sometimes
other folders, with the subject "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER
INTERNAL DATA" from the "MAILER-DAEMON".  This message reappears every
time they use pine and then use a different email program to view the
same folder.

This message is generated by pine 4.xx and should be ignored.  Deleting
it results in loss of information that shows which messages in that
folder have been answered via pine or flagged for other reasons
(important, deleted, but not expunged, etc.).  The message itself is
small, using only about 500 bytes of disk space.

(Users who use only pine will not see the message since pine uses it to
store internal information about the folder and does not display it.)

Users who do NOT care about the flags that pine uses to show message
status (ansered, important, deleted, etc.) may change a pine
configuration option to prevent further creation of these messages.

In that case, follow these steps:

1.      Login to your Central UNIX account via a telnet program.
        
2.      Start the pine program at the system prompt (%) by typing "pine"
        followed by a <RETURN>.
        
3.      At the main menu, type an "s" for setup (DO NOT press <RETURN>).
        
4.      At the setup sub-menu, type an "c" for config (DO NOT press
        <RETURN>).
        
5.      Within the setup/config menu type a "w" to search for the
        desired setting (DO NOT press <RETURN>).
        
6.      At the "Word to find :" prompt, type "internal-msg" followed by
        a <RETURN>
        
7.      While the phrase "quell-folder-internal-msg" is selected, press
        "x" to set this option (DO NOT press <RETURN>; an "X" will appear
        between the square braces).
        
8.      Press "e" to exit setup (DO NOT press <RETURN>).
        
9.      At the "Commit changes ("Yes" replaces settings, "No" abandons
        changes)?" prompt, enter a "y" (DO NOT press <RETURN>).  You should see
        a message "[Configuration changes saved]" appear at the bottom of the
        pine main menu.
        
10.     Type a "q" to quit pine (DO NOT press <RETURN>).
        
11.     At the "Really quit pine?" prompt, type "y" (DO NOT press
        <RETURN>).
        
12.     At the systemp prompt (%), type "exit" followed by a <RETURN> to
        log out of Central UNIX.

This setting can be reversed, at any time, by repeating the above
procedure.

If you have any further questions, please call the User Support Services
Help Desk at 756-7000 or email "eus@polymail.calpoly.edu".