Subject: Re: Delivery Confirmation?

From: [email-masked] (David Osborne)
Date: 7 Jun 1995 12:28:27 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Robyn Boyle <[email-masked]> writes:

> On pegasus mail, there is a function whereby you can get notification that
> your mail has actually been delivered to the other person's server. Is there
> any such function on Pine?

Pegasus uses some "private" headers for that function, since there's no official
method in the RFC822 mail standard supporting receipt acknowledgement.  Depending
on the mailer used at the remote end, you *may* find that getting Pine to insert
Return-Receipt-To: your-address
or
Acknowledge-To: your-address
headers (perhaps by adding either or both as "custom headers" in your Pine config)
will do what you want.  There's a group in the Internet Engineering Task Force
working on the specification of this type of facility, but until that's published
and widely implemented, only ad hoc methods like these may work and then only for
those recipients whose mailers support them.

-- 
~~David Osborne
  Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham

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From: [email-masked] (David Osborne)
Date: 7 Jun 1995 12:28:27 GMT