Xref: utzoo comp.mail.headers:404 comp.mail.misc:1268 comp.mail.sendmail:113 comp.mail.uucp:1969 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!princeton!njin!rutgers!psuvax1!blitz!ehrlich From: ehrlich@blitz (Dan Ehrlich) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: "Return-Receipt-To:" and Mail/mailx Message-ID: <3975@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Date: 26 Sep 88 13:55:19 GMT References: <511@mipseast.mips.COM> Sender: uucp@super.ORG Reply-To: ehrlich@blitz (Dan Ehrlich) Followup-To: comp.mail.headers Organization: Department of Computer Science, Penn State University Lines: 23 In article <511@mipseast.mips.COM> rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes: > >Does anyone have any suggestions for adding a "Return-Receipt-To:" header >to mail generated by /usr/ucb/mail (on our BSD system) or mailx (on our >SV system)? I use EMACS as my mailer, so can add it easily, but the rest >of the local staff uses, and must continue to use, the basic user agents. For anybody who uses /use/ucb/mail (I am not sure about SV) one can create a file named .mailcf in one's home directory. This file can conatin any additional headers that one would like to appear in the outgoing message. Here is what I have in the one I use: HWork-Phone: +1 814 863 1142 This bit of magic was shown to me by one of the other systems programmers here. I have not delved into the source for /usr/ucb/mail to figure out what else can go in to this file or what other magic can be done. Dan Ehrlich| Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are The Pennsylvania State University | my own, and should not be attributed Department of Computer Science | to anyone else, living or dead. University Park, PA 16802 |