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Article #1490Re: (?) a shot in the dark concerning nextmail headers
From: Edward Murphy
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:09
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:09
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Brian Willoughby writes > No documentation, just something I noticed. i.e. the line which says: > > Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.63) > > will be the following if a Read Receipt has been requested by the sender: > > Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.63.RR) > > Obviously, the actual mailer version number may be different, but the ".RR" is > constant. I search for the string ".RR)" on incoming mail and filter it to > prevent receipts from being generated when I read the mail the first time. I > wouls assume that the mail is simply returned to the person or address listed > in the header after From:, but I've never bothered to verify if that is always > true. I leave that test as an exercise for interested parties. brian, you are quite correct. someone suggested this and so i played around and found it to be the case. i expect the problem i was having seeing this before was due to the density of my skull :) :). indeed, someone sent a mail message to me indicating that there are actually 2 different mailers on the next. one designed to handle read receipts and the other not. the .RR that you mention inidcates which one is used. as i've alluded, my problem has been solved. thanks for all who replied. ed
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!tulane!cs.cs.uno.edu!news From: emurphy@cs.uno.edu (Edward Murphy) Subject: Re: (?) a shot in the dark concerning nextmail headers Message-ID: <1992Oct14.220938.7046@cs.uno.edu> Sender: news@cs.uno.edu Organization: University of New Orleans References: <Bvw820.8B@sounds.wa.com> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:09:38 GMT Lines: 36