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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Filter Question/Problem
Keywords: filter, elm, problem
Message-ID: <141@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Date: 1 Oct 89 20:50:35 GMT
References: <3250@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Organization: Intuitive Systems, Mountain View, CA: +011 (415) 966-1151
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Jeff Boerio from Purdue asks about "filter" and its prediliction to "strip
the 'new' flag from the Status field" before delivering the mail into the
specified mailbox.

Well, Jeff, I can't see how that's happening; the Status: field (if that's
what you're talking about) is something that is added by the Berkeley Mail
(aka "mailx" on System V machines) program so it can keep track of the
status of messages.  That isn't, technically, a header that is generated
by a sender, forwarding site, or even delivery program at all...

Having said that, I have occasionally received messages that *have* the
Status: field already included.  Usually, though, that's because someone
is "bouncing" (or equivalent: 'cat message | sendmail') a message to me that
they read using Berkeley Mail.

I can see where you'd get annoying about what's going on, but I assure you
that unless I'm completely confused about what you're talking about, that 
it is most certainly not a problem with the 'filter' program itself.

Look into it further (e.g. turn off filter, then look at your new mailbox
with something like 'cat' and see if there are "Status:" fields included
in your messages) and get back to us?

				From the virtual reality of,

						-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California

taylor@limbo.intuitive.com    or   {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor