bakken@hrsw2.UUCP (David E. Bakken) (05/04/88)
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!! -- Dave Bakken Boeing Commercial Airplanes (206) 277-2571 uw-beaver!apcisea!hrsw2!bakken Disclaimer: These are my own views, not those of my employers. Don't let them deter you from buying the 747 you've been saving hard for.
tr@wind.bellcore.com (tom reingold) (05/09/88)
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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tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold) wrote:
->Include a line with a "Return-Receipt-To:" field, like this:
->
->This may not work for uucp mail. It works for Arpanet mail,
->though.
a) this isn't a mh issue
b) this header line is non-standard (as far as I can tell) and
currently only works if the destination is running sendmail.
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# {ames,cca,decvax,harvard,lotus,mit-eddie,rochester,soft21}!garp!henrybd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger) (05/11/88)
> b) this header line is non-standard (as far as I can tell) and > currently only works if the destination is running sendmail. It works only if _all_ systems, from source to destination, are running sendmail. It is implemented in sendmail. -- bd
igb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian G Batten <BattenIG>) (05/11/88)
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
bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger) (05/14/88)
> perhaps sending mail to remotesite!mysite!me as a cc > to remotesite!you would be a good idea. That usually works, but not always. For example, suppose you send to neighbor!ihnp4!somewhere!far!away!remote!friend and CC yourself as (path to remote)!away!far!somewhere!ihnp4!neighbor!home!me The smart mailer on ihnp4 will look at the *end* of your CC line, realize that it can get to "neighbor" quicker than the path you typed on your CC line, and will send your CC back as neighbor!home!me So you'll get the CC much quicker than your remote friend. You'd never know that it short-circuited the path unless you read the mail headers quite scrupulously---and only if the headers were updated at each system along the way. In fairness to the original suggestion, though, the CC idea should work unless you send it through one of these super-smart hubs. In fact, ihnp4 is the only system that I know of that does this short- circuiting. It does this because in most cases it actually can get to the final destination quicker than by the path you've typed. -- bd