(NB nothing important to clamav here, just clarifying a subtle
point)

2003-09-22T12:16:11 Tomasz Papszun:
> > bad.mbox is attached, it's just a single small message ... although it may
> 
> In fact, there are 2 messages; mutt shows:
> 
> q:Quit  d:Del  u:Undel  s:Save  m:Mail  r:Reply  g:Group  ?:Help
>   1 N   20.09.03 owner-sotd          (7.7K)
>   2     21.09.03 Mail System Interna (0.3K) DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER

That's common. Pine, along with uw-imapd and the other
email-handling utilities in that family, uses a common library for
handling mailbox files. Its mbox handler always deposits one of
these "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE..." things in it, to hold some
metadata the IMAP protocol likes, I believe. It's hidden by pine,
shows up in all other MUAs (like mutt) when accessing the folder
directly, or when a different popd or imapd, not based on that
library, views the mbox.

-Bennett

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