Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!dcl-cs!nott-cs!james.cs.bham.ac.uk!igb From: igb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian G Batten) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: return receipt for email Keywords: return,receipt Message-ID: <261@james.cs.bham.ac.uk> Date: 11 May 88 10:00:50 GMT References: <72@hrsw2.UUCP> <7237@bellcore.bellcore.com> Organization: The Dark Depths of the CS Dungeons, Birmingham University, England Lines: 21 In article <7237@bellcore.bellcore.com> tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold) writes: > In article <72@hrsw2.UUCP> bakken@hrsw2.UUCP (David E. Bakken) writes: > $ I've heard there is a header line that you can put in a mail message > $ that will have the destination machine send back confirmation that > As I understand it this only works for _some_ (probably SMTP) mailers. The "standard" ucb sendmail does indeed grok Return-Receipt-To:. The one that MMDF sites will run does not. I am sure that there are other mailers that do and others that don't. I have not heard of anything similar for UUCP; perhaps sending mail to remotesite!mysite!me as a cc to remotesite!you would be a good idea. -- ian INTERNET: BattenIG%cs.bham.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu JANET: BattenIG@uk.ac.bham.cs BITNET: BattenIG%cs.bham.ac.uk@ukacrl.bitnet UUCP: ...!mcvax!bhamcs!BattenIG