Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!limbo!taylor 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 Lines: 30 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