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From: am@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Arnulf Mester)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: ? no feedback to submit.rq possible ?
Keywords: delivery notice, receipt notification, fate of messages, standard as lowest common denominator
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Date: 19 Jul 90 17:09:17 GMT
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Hello!

As I understood X.400(84), an originator of a message may never get
ANY feedback about the fate of his message. There seems to be no
mandatory feedback to the originator, only "desirable" (non)-delivery
notices and/or IPM (non)-receipt notifications. These notifictions
may be discarded anytime when not deliverable/forwardable to the
originator of the original message.

Am I right?

Does X.400(88) also have this "sloppy behaviour"?

Kind regards,
	Arnulf Mester