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*** Old business: ***

Many thanks to Raphael Manfredi <ram@eiffel.com> ( who posted a follow-up ) 
and to the many other folks who mailed me answers to my question. 

I had wondered if the null chars ( 0x00 ) I had observed in the mailbox
file were functional ( and necessary ) separators. The consensus seems
to agree with  arensb@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Andrew Arensburger - RMS):

>	As far as I can tell, they are produced by broken mail software
>and grudgingly tolerated by sendmail/SMTP. Or at any rate (9600 bps? :-) ),
>when a cron script sends bogus junk to mail, I usually get a complaint
>from daemon saying
>	Mail: Ignoring NULL characters in mail.


I also got numerous suggestions for programs to filter/pre-process mail, 
including procmail, filter ( in elm ), mh, etc. ( And investigating this
is one of the things that prompted my other questions about POP vs. IMAP: 
If I filter my incoming mail on my unix host, then I can't access that 
mail with POP - which can only access the default mailbox ( usually 
/var/spool/mail/_user_ ). - Someone else has already posted a summary
of POP/IMAP/PCMAIL clients and servers in another thread. I will post
a followup when I have something more to add. ) 


*** New Business: *** 

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? 

Is it "legal" or "well-behaved" to SEND a "Status:" line in a header,
or is this always inserted by the UA software ? 

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? ) 

Are there recognized values across different mailers for that Status field? 
( and what are they? ) 


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