In message <3F1BBCB7.4547.12179C65@localhost> you write: > > A solution is not immediately obvious to me, but I'll play with things to > > see if one presents itself. > Use Send= Editor,Hold rather than Send= Editor Thanks John. I considered that, but I believe that changing that setting would switch approval to require an "OK" reply, right? It's ultimately 6-and-a-half but I decided to try to find a solution to the status problem. It turned out that the problem was within the mail client I was using for approval itself (IMP). Pine doesn't send the Status header in redirected or bounced mails and so in the short term I've switched to it. In the slightly longer term, I think I've identified the lines in IMP (since it's an open source project) that should be omitting the Status header when redirecting a mail and I'll try to send the project maintainers a patch and explanation of this problem. Pratik