Subject: Registered mail

From: [email-masked] (John Laundree{79236})
Date: 6 Nov 1995 18:07:18 GMT

Hi!  I am a new pine user and this may be a relatively simple question, although
I could not find the info I need at the washington site.  I would like to send
email and when it is read by the recipient, I would like the originator to be
notfied.  (just like registered mail of the postal system)  Can pine do this?
What type of flag or settings do I need.

Thanks,

John Laundree
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 20:32:19 +0100 (MET)

Quoting John Laundree{79236}:
> I would like to send email and when it is read by the recipient, I would
> like the originator to be notfied. (just like registered mail of the postal
> system) Can pine do this?  What type of flag or settings do I need.

Every mail can be sent with a Return-Receipt-To which will give you a return
mail when the receiving MTA has delivered the mail to the mailbox.
But there is no may to tell whether a person has read a mail.  Forget it!

Read this page and you may understand:
  http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/elm/elm.reading.acknowledgement.html

Sven