Andy Walden writes:

> 
> What marks a message as read or new? I'm trying to reinstate the "You have
> new Mail" when people login and figured I would write a program to do it
> since I couldn't find one. I also need a program to just list new mail
> headers. Does anyone know the flag that gets set to make a message New or
> Read? Thanks. andy

That depends on whether or not you use mailbox files or Maildirs.  mailbox
files use the Status: header in each individual message.  For Maildirs, see
the man page for maildir(5), and http://pobox.com/~djb/proto/maildir.html
-- 
Sam

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