[ale] message header to identify "read" email

[yahoo at jimpop.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 22:24 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> Hey Jim...
> 
> 	Small world (inside joke)...

:-)

> New:
> 	No special header (rather absence of "Status:" or "X-Status:" headers).
> If you strip the Status: header from a message in an mbox mailbox, it
> becomes "New".  Using the change status mode in mutt to change a message
> back to "New" removes all Status: and X-Status: headers.
> 
> Old:	"Status: O"
> 	(Old?  Observed? ???)
> 
> Read:	"Status: RO"
> 	(Read Old?)
> 
> Deleted:
> 	"Status: RO"
> 	"X-Status: D"
> 
> Replied to:
> 	"Status: RO"
> 	"X-Status: A"
> 

Thanks!  Status: seems to be popular enough to use for this.  I
understand it may not be universally supported, but I'd rather not
re-create the wheel here.

Thanks again,

-Jim P.