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Article #100Re: Header field "Status:" (Was: What is the format of a mailbox file?)
From: Syd Weinstein
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 03:11
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 03:11
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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. -- ======================================================================== Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.3PL11 Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 2.4 Release: Oct 1,1992 syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ub!dsinc!syd 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> Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc. Huntingdon Valley, PA Lines: 24