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33.9 Rmail Attributes
Some labels such as ‘deleted’ and ‘filed’ have built-in meanings, and Rmail assigns them to messages automatically at appropriate times; these labels are called attributes. Here is a list of Rmail attributes:
- ‘
unseen’ - Means the message has never been current. Assigned to messages when they come from an inbox file, and removed when a message is made current. When you start Rmail, it initially shows the first message that has this attribute.
- ‘
deleted’ - Means the message is deleted. Assigned by deletion commands and removed by undeletion commands (see Rmail Deletion).
- ‘
filed’ - Means the message has been copied to some other file. Assigned by the o and C-o file output commands (see Rmail Output).
- ‘
answered’ - Means you have mailed an answer to the message. Assigned by the r command (
rmail-reply). See Rmail Reply. - ‘
forwarded’ - Means you have forwarded the message. Assigned by the f command (
rmail-forward). See Rmail Reply. - ‘
edited’ - Means you have edited the text of the message within Rmail. See Rmail Editing.
- ‘
resent’ - Means you have resent the message. Assigned by the command M-x rmail-resend. See Rmail Reply.
- ‘
retried’ - Means you have retried a failed outgoing message. Assigned by the command M-x rmail-retry-failure. See Rmail Reply.
All other labels are assigned or removed only by users, and have no standard meaning.
