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From: tr@wind.bellcore.com (tom reingold)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: return receipt for email
Message-ID: <7237@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 8 May 88 17:18:14 GMT
References: <72@hrsw2.UUCP>
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Reply-To: tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold)
Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, Noo Joizy
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Keywords: return,receipt

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
$ your mail message made it.  However, I don't know how to do this or
$ even where to look it up.  Could some kind soul show me how do do this?
$ Thanks in advance!!

Include a line with a "Return-Receipt-To:" field, like this:

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To: him
Subject: this and that
Return-Receipt-To: me
Cc: everyone_else

Hi there, you.  What's the latest?

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This may not work for uucp mail.  It works for Arpanet mail,
though.

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