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Re: CONFIRM: DELIVERY

#685
From: The lost Bostonian
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1986 00:37
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In article <20884@styx.UUCP>, mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch) writes:
> A large percentage of Internet mailers (and at least one user agent) 
> respond to the header field
> 
> 	Return-Receipt-To: <addr-spec>
> 
> confirming delivery of a message to a mailbox (in the case of a
> delivery agent) or reading of the message (in the case of a user
> agent). It isn't in RFC822, but I'd call it a de facto standard among
> 822-style mailers.

Doesn't Return-Receipt-To: cause a mail loop with sendmail?  I seem to
recall having that problem the one time I tried using this feature.

--gregbo
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From: gds@sri-spam.ARPA (The lost Bostonian)
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Subject: Re: CONFIRM: DELIVERY
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Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 20:37:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 24 20:37:46 1986
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