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From: darrell@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Darrell McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Potential New ELM Feature
Message-ID: <1077@urbana.mcd.mot.com>
Date: 9 Oct 89 15:23:04 GMT
References: <340@grc.UUCP> <144@limbo.Intuitive.Com> <1989Oct5.143914.9060@DSI.COM>
Reply-To: darrell@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Darrell McIntosh)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Urbana [IL] Design Center
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In article <1989Oct5.143914.9060@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
>Dave is correct, here, but there is one problem, Return-Receipt-To:
>sends a receipt from every system that handles the message, and in the
>uucp world, that could be a lot of receipts.  It would be nice if
>the receipt came from the final system only.  Now, of course, with
>SMTP there is no such problem.

Actually the receipts are sent from the systems that perform the final
mail delivery, i.e., the systems that put the mail into the users'
mailboxes.  Sites that handle the mail along the way to the destination
do not send receipts although they should be attaching Received: headers
so that you can determine, more or less, the path the mail took to get
to its destinations.  The receipts typically include all the mail
headers but have the body of the mail deleted.

-- 
Darrell McIntosh, Motorola Microcomputer Division, Urbana [IL] Design Center
Phone:	+1 217 384 8509
Email:	darrell@urbana.mcd.mot.com, udc!darrell, uunet!uiucuxc!udc!darrell