Subject: Receiving confirmation for sent mail

From: "Alan D. Bulley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 09:26:41 -0500

Hello,

Does anyone know if it is possible to configure pine in such a way 
that I can receive a "confirmation of delivery" for the mail I send 
out? The mailer I used previously on CMS did this, and I often found 
it useful to know that my e-mail had arrived at its destination.

Any experiences with this or ideas that are worth trying?

Thanks!
-- 
Alan D. Bulley
Faculty of Theology / Faculte de theologie
Saint Paul University / Universite Saint-Paul
Ottawa, Canada  [email-masked]

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 11:48:33 -0500

> it useful to know that my e-mail had arrived at its destination.

    You can go into Setup and Config from the Main Menu (assuming you are 
using Pine 3.91) and add a customized header, Return-receipt-to: 
your-address .  However, this is no guarantee that you will in fact get a 
receipt when the mail gets there, as not all receiving systems honor the 
request and there is no Internet-wide requirement that they do so.  Some 
do, some don't.  (Your experience on CMS was probably solely within the 
IBM internal world, which honors it in its own way and is not an Internet 
standard.  Various proprietary mail schemes do things like this.)

Paul
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From: [email-masked]
Date: 29 Dec 1995 01:19:36 GMT

>   Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]> writes:

>  using Pine 3.91) and add a customized header, Return-receipt-to: 
[...]
>  request and there is no Internet-wide requirement that they do so.  Some 

In addition to Paul's words of caution, if you subscribe to any mailing lists, be prepared
to make the list admins VERY unhappy as various subscriber hosts send confirmation 
messages back to the list posting address!

Regards,
Roland....an often unhappy list admin