TRANSFER Programming Manual

Item Types
Conventions for Application Interface
069138, Update 1 to 040970 Tandem Computers Incorporated A–3
Item Types The TRANSFER delivery system assigns special meaning to the following types of
items, as designated by the ITEM-TYPE field of the item descriptor. Table A-3 lists
and describes the ITEM-TYPE values assigned by the TRANSFER delivery system.
Table A-3. ITEM-TYPE Values
Label Used by
Mail Client Description
Value in
ITEM-TYPE Field
ORIGINAL Original package 109
REPLY Reply package 110
FORWARD Forward package 111
ORIGINAL Original package (with TTEXT data) 112
REPLY Reply package (with TTEXT data) 113
FORWARD Forward package (with TTEXT data) 114
Timeout package 115
Related (Cross-Referenced) package 116
Obsoleted package 117
Reconstructed item 118
Expired item 119
TEXT Unformatted text item 120
TTEXT TTEXT item 121
DATA Data item 130
PCDATA Data item originally created on PC 131
WPLINK Document item 150
Corrupt WPLINK document item 151
X400 body part 170
X400 originated item 171
Replication package 180
Component 355
FAX item 358
Null FAX item 359
Courier standard item 400
Courier continuation item 401
Courier returned item 402
Courier acknowledged item 403
Courier copy item 404
Note TTEXT, WPLINK, and FAXLINK are obsolete products, but you might still have items of their types in your
database.