Stefan Hornburg writes:

  Status: Status is a non-standard RFC2822 message header added by
    Eudora and other e-mail clients after message delivery to indicate

That, pretty much, says it all.

The Status: header is used in mbox files only to save the message's status (read/unread, etc) simply because there's no other way to do it.

With maildirs, the filename flags serve that purpose, and the Status: header is not used. Mail clients that expect to see a Status: header are broken.


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