Subject: Receipt for sentmail

From: Pulp Fiction <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 19:35:21 -0400 (EDT)

I recently sent mail to someone on compuserve. They didnt received any 
mail from me, after 1 week. I did not get any error messages, or address 
not found error messages.
Is there any way of attaching a receipt to the mail, so that you get a 
reply telling u your mail made it to the address indicated
TIA

			Love, Peace & Respect Jaz ........

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:05:26 -0400

On 15 Oct 1995, Pulp Fiction wrote:

| I recently sent mail to someone on compuserve. They didnt received any 
| mail from me, after 1 week. I did not get any error messages, or address 
| not found error messages.
| Is there any way of attaching a receipt to the mail, so that you get a 
| reply telling u your mail made it to the address indicated

    Maybe -- it depends on the receiving system.  Go into Setup/Config 
and create a custom header  Return-Receipt-To: your-email-address 
When you send mail, some receiving systems will honor this and send you 
back a return receipt, and some will not.  Although I have not tried it, 
I strongly suspect that CompuServe will probably _not_ honor it.  There 
is no requirement in the Internet standards that a receiving system do 
so, so it is sort of pot luck.  By the way, the return receipt does NOT 
mean that the recipient has read it -- it only means that it got there.

Paul
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