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From: joe@cbnews.att.com (Joseph Judge)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Status line in headers
Message-ID: <1990Aug23.172555.12655@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 23 Aug 90 17:25:55 GMT
References: <1990Aug21.114941.13504@cs.eur.nl>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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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 ?  Sometimes there's no such line, and sometimes the line contains
>"Status: OR". I haven't seen anything else so far.


	The Status: line is not a "sent" header. I think the mailer, that you
	use to read your mailbox, puts these in to keep track of what you
	have seen or read.


	No Status: line means unread, so it puts a "N" (new) in the left column.
	Else, it puts whatever status code on the left. (O, R, S) 

	Joseph Judge		postmaster@ATT.COM