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Article #1138Re: Return-Receipt-To: header reliable?
From: David J. Fiander
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 15:33
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 15:33
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According to vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver): > >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. > Once again, you are assuming that a) the receiving site honours return-receipt-to, and b) that the information returned will be usefull for debugging purposes. SCO MMDF return-receipts say something like: Your message (message-id) was received by the following users or their agents: recipient recipient The only way to reliably debug mail problems is to send mail to postmaster@remote.dom.ain asking her to return your headers to you. - David
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.headers Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!golem!davidf From: davidf@golem.uucp (David J. Fiander) Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To: header reliable? References: <dhuber.715611908@autmgr> <1992Sep05.124731.8552@golem.uucp> <pfi3ems@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> Message-ID: <1992Sep07.153345.613@golem.uucp> Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 15:33:45 GMT Lines: 24