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Re: Return-Receipt-To: header reliable?

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From: Leslie Mikesell
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:59
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In article <1992Sep10.080432.12737@Veritas.COM> tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr) writes:
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>>smail also supports Return-Receipt-To: headers.
>
>Which smail?  Smail2.5 didn't, last I checked.  The official releases
>of smail3.1 don't, although I believe that some unofficial patches are
>filtering around that do this.

Smail3 doesn't need any patches to the executable for this.  All you have to
do is add a transport entry that pipes to a shell script or program that
generates the receipts if requested, then add it as a shadow transport
to local delivery.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us
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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To: header reliable?
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