Subject: Re: Return receipt?

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:03:04 -0500

On 22 Mar 1997, Dave Cannell wrote:

> Is there anyway to get a return receipt or some sort of verification of
> receipt from pine?

    You cannot *force* another system to provide you with a return
receipt, but you can request it.  Whether or not you will get a receipt
will depend on whether or not the receiving systems honors your request
-- some do and some don't.  Because return receipts are _not_ an
Internet standard, it is sort of pot luck.  The fact that you do not
get a receipt back tells you approximately nothing.  Also, please
understand that even if you do get a return receipt, that tells you
nothing about whether or not the actual recipient has really _read_ 
the message.  It only tells you that your message got there and was
delivered to the recipient's mailbox.

    Anyway, go into your Pine configuration and add the customized
header

        Return-Receipt-To: _your_email_address_

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From: Alain Buys <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:16:49 +0100

Dave Cannell wrote:
> Thanks, Dave Cannell

Just add this in your configuration 

customized-hdrs          = Return-Receipt-To:

and fill in the header with your address whenever you want it.

NB: This will work or not, depending on the remote system ...
but that's all you can do, as far as I know, apart from giving 
a phone call. Apart from the way of configuring the mail agent, 
this is independent of Pine. 

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