jjohnson@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (James R. Johnson) (01/30/91)
Hello, all. Being on several different systems, I have access to three, I
find my self working with three different mailers. Of the three, I like elm
the best. However there is one feature for which I have not found an attribute
in my .elmrc file; and that is read receipt. On one system that I have access
to, (for work purposes) I can flag certain email messages that I send "read
receipt requested". When the party receives the email and it has been read,
a message is sent to my account that tells me that they indeed received it.
Kinda like a registered U.S. postal letter. Any ideas?
Thanx
Jim
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In article <1991Jan29.183855.4781@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> jjohnson@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (James R. Johnson) writes: > [...] On one system that I have access >to, (for work purposes) I can flag certain email messages that I send "read >receipt requested". When the party receives the email and it has been read, >a message is sent to my account that tells me that they indeed received it. Ethics aside, you are depending on a non-standard "feature" of sendmail (and possibly MMDF?) to perform this return-receipt facility. If you must insist on using it, then (at least under elm 2.2) you can arrange for certain headers to be added to your email automatically. You simply add the required headers to the file $HOME/.elm/elmheaders or your equivalent (.elm/ is where things like the elmrc are kept). Thus you could specify the following in this file Return-Receipt-To: jjohnson@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu There was a lengthy (open-ended) discussion (argument!?) concerning this a short time ago; the consensus seemed to be that the recipient of a message should have the option of (not) allowing an acknowlegment to be returned. It's not so much whether _you_ agree with this (or not), but whether your intended recipients agree...! Chris -- VISIONWARE LTD | UK: chris@vision.uucp JANET: chris%vision.uucp@ukc 57 Cardigan Lane | US: chris@vware.mn.org BANGNET: ...!ukc!vision!chris LEEDS LS4 2LE, England | VOICE: +44 532 788858 FAX: +44 532 304676 -------------- "VisionWare: The home of DOS/UNIX/X integration" -------------