Subject: EMAIL QUESTION

From: "Wei Kang Chen" <[email-masked]>
Date: 6 Dec 1996 05:20:53 GMT

HOW COME SOMETIMES WHEN I SEND A MESSAGE OVER THE INTERNET, VIA 
     CCMAIL, I GET A RETURN RECEIPT, AND OTHER TIMES I DO NOT ? I 
     ALWAYS REQUEST ONE. IS IT SOMETHING ON THE RECEIVING SIDE THAT 
     DETERMINES WHETHER A RETURN RECEIPT CAN OCCUR ?

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 08:48:50 -0500

>      DETERMINES WHETHER A RETURN RECEIPT CAN OCCUR ?

    Yes.  The receiving system "decides" whether it will honor the
request for a return receipt, depending on how the system administrator
set it up.  Some systems honor the request and some do not.  At the
present time, there is no way you can force a remote system to give you
a receipt.  (And in case anybody asks, no, there is no way at present
to force any system to tell you that your recipient has actually opened
and read your message.  A few proprietary systems do this, but you
cannot do it on the Internet in general.)

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 17:52:13 -0500

On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Peter Karlsson wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Paul O Bartlett wrote:
> 
> > request for a return receipt, 
> 
> On systems that do honour requests, what do I set in the message header to
> get it to send one?

    Go into the configuration screen and scroll down to
"customized-hdrs."  Add the following line:

        Return-Receipt-To: your_email_address_goes_here