pinkas@hobbit.intel.com (Israel Pinkas ~) (12/01/88)
My group is interested in implementing some form of mail delivery
notification. I would be interested in finding out if there is any
standard for this. I remember some discussion in one of the newsgroups
about a Return-receipt: header as an extension to RFC822, but I do not
remember what was resolved.
If anybody has implemented this, I would be interested in finding out the
following:
1) How is the remote sendmail notified that it should send a reply?
2) Beyond the obvious change in the local mail delivery, which sends the
reply, were any other changes necessary?
3) How does the user let the local sendmail know that s/he would like to be
notified of delivery?
On a related note, has anybody implemented mail delay notification? This
would send mail back to a user announcing that the message was queued up,
but is not lost. The reason for this is that we often have long periods
where the international links in our network are either slow or
non-existent. Letting a user know that the message was trapped at a
domestic site could save some people.
-Israel Pinkas
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CSNET: pinkas@cad001.intel.comrroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) (12/13/88)
From article <PINKAS.88Nov30105629@hobbit.intel.com>, by pinkas@hobbit.intel.com (Israel Pinkas ~): > > > On a related note, has anybody implemented mail delay notification? This > would send mail back to a user announcing that the message was queued up, > but is not lost. -------------------- You can do this in various ways. Here on a Convergent Tech with HDB, there is a program (uucleanup) which does this. Now, if only I can convince it that stuff being forwarded thru us isn't from 'ucp'.... (working on that). You can generally do this (for UUCP queued stuff) by looking thru command files that are N days old and, if they are mail, then fire a note to the sender saying that the mail is delayed. To avoid mail loops, you should both recognize and implement messages that say 'DO NOT NOTIFY' when you do this. -- ------------- Stephen Samuel (userzxcv@ualtamts.bitnet or alberta!edm!steve) (Only in Canada, you say??.... Pity!)