Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!umix!umich!mibte!gamma!ulysses!thumper!faline!bellcore!wind!tr 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> Sender: news@bellcore.bellcore.com Reply-To: tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold) Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, Noo Joizy Lines: 27 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: -------- To: him Subject: this and that Return-Receipt-To: me Cc: everyone_else Hi there, you. What's the latest? -------- This may not work for uucp mail. It works for Arpanet mail, though. "Just say NO to empty, dogmatic slogans coined by Nancy Reagan!" Tom Reingold PAPERNET: |INTERNET: tr@bellcore.bellcore.com Bell Communications Research |UUCP-NET: bellcore!tr 445 South St room 2L350 |SOUNDNET: (201) 829-4622 [work], Morristown, NJ 07960-1910 | (201) 287-2345 [home]