Subject: Re: About the "Return-Receipt-To:" custom header

From: Eric <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 20:36:32 GMT

On 8 Mar 1996, Mark Tangard wrote:

> Does it send the return receipt when the message ARRIVES at the 
> addressee's mailbox, or when it gets READ?

  "ARRIVES".
  Returning a receipt when an e-mail gets READ is considered by some
people an intrusion of privacy.
  "Why do I have to tell you whehter I've read your e-mail?!!" ;-)

  Hope this helps.

Eric

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From: Joe Klein <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:19:20 +0200

Not necessarily; it depends on the target system. When I sent messages to 
my sister-in-law with the Return-Receipt field, I got back a response 
when she accessed the message. Something like

user foobar accessed your message at Jan 5 8:05 AM.

This seem to be exception, but it does exist.

Joe