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Re: Return-Receipt-To: header reliable?

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From: David J. Fiander
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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From: davidf@golem.uucp (David J. Fiander)
Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To: header reliable?
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