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- From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
- Subject: Re: Header field "Status:" (Was: What is the format of a mailbox file?)
- Keywords: elm, rfc822
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.031100.9762@DSI.COM>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 03:11:00 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.203046.25591@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <122@eiffel.eiffel.com> <1992Aug28.183548.26276@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc. Huntingdon Valley, PA
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- sdm7g@aemsun.med.Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski) writes:
- >I note that elm, besides a Status of New,Read, etc., also has a
- >"permanent" status of Urgent, Form-letter, etc.
-
- >Is this also encoded in the "Status:" header field?
- No, its encoded in the 'Precedence:' header.
-
- >Is it "legal" or "well-behaved" to SEND a "Status:" line in a header,
- >or is this always inserted by the UA software ?
- You can send it, but the message will never look 'new'.
-
- >i.e. Am I allowed to send a message with "Status: Urgent" and does
- >any software besides 'elm' know what to do with that field? )
- Status:Urgent will do nothing, as the status 'flags' are all one char long.
- (and independent of each other)
-
- >Are there recognized values across different mailers for that Status field?
- >( and what are they? )
- Elm copies the Berkeley mailer for Read and Old.
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.3PL11
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 2.4 Release: Oct 1,1992
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