Subject: pine commands

From: David Conway <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 13:42:04 -0500 (CDT)

I have a question concerning pine.  The help menu did not have the
information that I need.  What are the letters in front of the message
sent list telling me?  How can I tell if a message has been posted to the
server, if the message has been read and the time of message receipt?
Thanks for your help.

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 12:27:46 -0400

> server, if the message has been read and the time of message receipt?

    Unfortunately, your questions are a little ambiguous (at least to
me).  I'm not sure what you mean by the "message sent list," so it's
not clear what letters you're talking about.  When you refer to a
message "posted to the server," do you mean the server on your system
or the server on the recipient's system?  If you mean the latter, you
can set up a customized header in your configuration,
Return-Receipt-To: which some -- NOT ALL! -- servers will honor and
send you a receipt telling you, more or less, that your message got to
the recipient's server.  However, there is NO Internet-wide way to
determine when (or even whether) the message was opened and read by the
recipient.

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