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Re: "Status" header

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From: Brandon S. Allbery
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1989 22:35
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As quoted from <15051@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> by dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller):
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| In reponse to someone's question about what the Status: header is for,
| karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
| 
| > That's being done by Berkeley Mail.  If you have source, see
| > ucb/Mail/send.c.  Gross.  Pick another MUA.
| 
| This header is modified by Mail (or sokme UA) to remember that the
| message has been Read, Unread-but-old, or other information about
| the message.
| 
| Karl feels that this is "gross".  I'd love to hear suggestions about
| how to retain the "status" of a message without losing "state" and
| not storing the information in the actual message.  The status header
| is common among most Mail-based UA's (I don't know about MH).
+---------------

MH *does* use such headers.  However, the format is quite different:

	Replied: Sat, 01 Jul 89 10:43:08 -0400

However, you can give MH commands a flag (-noannotate) to turn this off.
Presumably, Karl does this (assuming that he uses MH); I, personally, prefer
to know about it.

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From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Subject: Re: "Status" header
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Date: 3 Jul 89 22:35:26 GMT
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