The 03.05.16 at 07:55, Paul Trevethan wrote:
'This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values.'
It is just a fake email used a placeholder by some email clients (such as pine and balsa) to save info about the rest of emails in the folder, such as read/new/important, etc (I think). Other clients should recognise it and ignore it if they can not make use of it. The problem is that the mbox format is standard, but the index, and each client implements its own. You can delete it safely, the most you loose is flags info.
What's with this? I do have root local mail sent to me (saves logging in as root) but I never had this behaviour in v8.1. I get hundreds of emails a day, many of which I delete as I read through because the thread does not interest me and it is very annoying to have to avoid this message.
It doesn't annoy me... I leave it, it is always marked read, and is the first one on the folder. Try to delete it, and if it reapears it is because you are using some software that needs it. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson