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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
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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.




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ian

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