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In article <1992Sep05.124731.8552@golem.uucp>, davidf@golem.uucp (David J. Fiander) writes:
> According to dhuber@autelca.ascom.ch (Daniel Huber):
> >I just recommended a colleauge to enable the header Return-Receipt-To: for
> >his outgoing international mail. However, we do not get all return receipts
> >we would expect... 
> >Is it possible to turn off Return-Receipt-To: replies? Or is the internet
> >that unreliable?
> 
> I hate to tell you this, but there is no such thing as a
> return-receipt-to header.
> 
> Well, actually there is, but it was invented by the author of
> sendmail, and only sendmail (and some versions of SCO MMDF)
> support the the generation of return receipts.  So the only
> time you will get a return receipt is when the recipient's
> machine is running sendmail.
> 
> Of course, through judicious use of the .forward file and mail
> filtering programs, the fact that you got a return receipt
> doesn't mean anything any way, since the addressee may be
> discarding mail from you unseen.


A common use of Return-Receipt-To: is to debug mail transport
problems.  It is a little cleaner and easier than mailing to
"nosuchuser@remote.dom.ain" or "<@remote.dom.ain:myname@my.dom.ain>",
when it works.



Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com