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From: David Collier-Brown
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:09
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:09
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sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner) writes: |I think it is high time that some form of standard return receipt were |available in Internet mail. It's one of the few functional areas where the |Internet lags behind practically ever proprietary mail system, and X.400 to |boot. Well, the historical reason this wasn't necessary/desirable/done is called finger. For those machines which supported the smtp and finger protocols, one could usually discover if the recipient had undelivered mail, or whether she had read it. Sendmail added return reciepts, but primarily for working through gateways... I regularly finger people, then look to see when my message was sent. Result? I know if it was read. I already **know** it was delivered: I didn't get a ``599 mail undeliverable: recipient had moved to mars'' message. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@CCS.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave 72 Abitibi Ave., | Willowdale, Ontario, | York Postmaster and CANADA. 416-223-8968 | occasional sendfail(8) consultant.
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!torn!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!yorku.ca!davecb From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding... Message-ID: <davecb.725771350@yorku.ca> Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System) Organization: York University References: <1992Dec20.022054@avsht.sph.spb.su> <19921225.001@erik.naggum.no> <sdorner-271292095054@0.0.0.0> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:09:10 GMT Lines: 25