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From: Doug Acker
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:06

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My users think mail is an instanteous 120% reliable mechanism .... they think
as soon as they send out a message, its delivered.  When a machine is down,
and mail doesn't get delivered in a day (thats what our bounce back is set as),
they think mail is flaky since it takes so long to get it back.

One alternative is to set the bounce-back to 1hr (which I'm leery to do)

Another is to use the Return-Receipt-To: header for critical message ..but
sendmail bounces back with "Returned Mail" .. is there a way to have a
subject of "Receipt"?

Any other way to do this out there?
-- 
Douglas L. Acker

Western Geophysical Exploration Products
Systems Engineer

Email (internal):  acker                Phone:  713-964-6128
      (Internet):  acker@wg2.waii.com

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