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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Status line in headers
Message-ID: <:YD5PR7@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 22 Aug 90 22:12:54 GMT
References: <1990Aug21.114941.13504@cs.eur.nl>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1990Aug21.114941.13504@cs.eur.nl> reino@cs.eur.nl (Reino de Boer) writes:
> Could someone tell me what the "Status: " line in mail headers is used
> for ?

It's put there by the MUA to track what messages have already been read.

> Sometimes there's no such line, and sometimes the line contains
> "Status: OR". I haven't seen anything else so far.

I haven't either:

	O	Opened. You have read mail since this message
		was deposited in your mailbox.
	R	Read. You have actually read this message (how much
		depends on the MUA, most will set this flag if you
		have only seen the first page).
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