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Article #696Re: CONFIRM: DELIVERY
From: Jeff Gilliam
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1986 06:32
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1986 06:32
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> No mail loop is caused, but there appears to be a sendmail bug
> which causes a return receipt to be returned to you whether or not
> the sendmail is doing final delivery of the message.
This is at odds with my experience. I regularly use the Return-Receipt-To:
feature and have never seen this happen.
> Also, you have to very carefully craft the address to which you
> request the receipts to be sent.
Again I beg to differ. I've always just used "Return-Receipt-To: jeff"
and each sendmail along the way plays with the address appropriately.
(Of course, this depends on every link on the route running sendmail.)
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Jeff Gilliam {ucbvax,pyramid,nsc}!voder!jeff
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