* On 19 Mar 2013, Erik Christiansen wrote: 
> 
> Status: (mbox format)
>    Mutt uses e.g. "Status: RO" to flag that a mail is "Read" and "Old"
>    Absence of a "Status:" header causes mutt to flag the mail as "New".

This is correct, for mbox (aka UNIX v7).  For Maildir and MH, IIRC, it's
a matter of filesystem location and perhaps, for Maildir, flags in the
filename.  (MH filenames are always integers with no flags.)

So to make a message 'new' via procmail, you want to delete the Status:
header.

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