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Started by Apokrif
Fri, 19 Dec 2003 20:35
Strange behavior with a Disposition-Notification-To header
Author: Apokrif
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 20:35
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 20:35
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I sometimes use a webmail (let's call it foobarmail.com) which allows to get return receipts from the recipient. So when I use it to send a mail to myself (or to anybody else), the message contains the header "Disposition-Notification-To: apokrif@foobarmail.com" A few seconds after the message has been sent, I get on foobarmail.com a message which reads: "Your message has been relayed by anotherwebmail.com". Once I've read the message on my other account (on anotherwebmail.com), I get another message on foobarmail.com, which reads something like: "The message you sent has been read by its recipient". So far, so good. The problem is that, instead of using a Web interface, I prefer sending messages with Gnus. So I tell Gnus to use the From field "apokrif@foobarmail.com", and I expect to receive two messages on Foobarmail: "Your message has been relayed" and "Your message has been read". In fact, I get only the latter, and not he former. So I don't understand why the confirmation messages I get depend on the interface or the client I use, whereas the messages they generate contain exactly the same Disposition-Notification-To header. I tried to add a Return-Receipt-To header, but that doesn't change anything. Any idea ? I don't know whether the problem lies in Gnus, in the SMTP server, or anywhere else, so I crosspost with a default Followup-To comp.mail.misc. -- Un site amusant: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs
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