Subject: Re: Requesting Automatic Message Acknowledgement

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:31:14 -0500

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Jonathan David Makepeace wrote:

> We are running Pine 3.91.
> 
> Is it possible to configure Pine to request acknowledgement that a 
> message has been received?

    Old, old, old, old, old question answered many, many, many, many,
many times on this newsgroup.  You can go into your configuration (off
the Main Menu) and add the customized header:

        Return-Receipt-To: your_email_address

However, there is no Internet standard enforcing return receipts, so
there is no way to predict whether any particular email will garner 
you a receipt or not.  It all depends on whether the receiving system
honors your request, and it is not required to do so.  Even if you do
get a receipt back, it only says the message has been delivered.  It
says nothing about whether the message has been read (or even possibly
thrown away unread).

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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