Subject: Return receipt

From: [email-masked] (Guillaume Lafrance)
Date: 13 Jun 1995 16:50:58 -0400

Is there a way I can ask for a return receipt when I send an email??

                                                  Thanks,
                                                            Guillaume

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From: Don Sugarman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 07:34:51 -0400 (EDT)

> Is there a way I can ask for a return receipt when I send an email??
I use the following, either at the beginning or end of the message:

 "Please let me know that you received this message."

Don Sugarman
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Guillaume Lafrance)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 18:22:16 -0400

>  "Please let me know that you received this message."

:)

But is there a way that I can ask Pine to add a special header to the message,
so when the person I wrote to reads the message, a note is sent to me?

                                                                Guillaume

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From: Don Sugarman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 19:42:42 -0400 (EDT)

> so when the person I wrote to reads the message, a note is sent to me?
I didn't mean to be flippant, but you must have missed the lenghty thread 
on return receipts.

There is a feature of sendmail or mail that if you include Receipt-to (*I 
think*) in your header, the receiving system may send you a message that 
the system received it.

Some programs, e.g., cc:mail, have a receipt feature.  

There is a lot of controversy over whether it is a good idea.

We used registered receipts for years on a company project, and it was 
great, but, imagine that you send a message to a distribution list of 100 
people - do you want 100 receipts?

I think the best approach is to ask you recipient to send you and 
acknowledgement.

Regards
Don Sugarman

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 19:42:00 -0400

> so when the person I wrote to reads the message, a note is sent to me?

    No.  There is no Internet standard for doing what you want.  Some 
private mail systems implement a receipt-upon-reading scheme, but the 
Internet as a whole does not, so there is no way you can force a remote 
computer to do it through Pine.  Sorry.

Paul
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