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From: Steve.Bridges@Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Getting acknowledge of receipt
Message-ID: <1292@uspm650.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Date: 1 Oct 90 17:26:40 GMT
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Reply-To: Steve.Bridges@Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges)
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In <547@cpsolv.CPS.COM> rhg@cpsolv.CPS.COM (Richard H. Gumpertz) writes:

>In article <1300006@hpprdea.HP.COM> raguay17@hpprdea.HP.COM (Radames Aguayo) writes:
>>Thanks to those who responded using mail.  Now I know that the answer is to add
>>the Return-Receipt-To: header.

>So who generates the response to the "Return-Receipt-To" header?  I see nothing
>in elm that does it; what program at the receiving end does do it?

It's real simple.

In $HOME/.elm/elmheaders, add the required line.  My elmheader file
is located below
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Organization: USG Product Marketing NCR Corporation
From: Steve.Bridges@Dayton.NCR.COM 
X-Mailer: ELM 2.3PL4
Return-Receipt-To: steve@uspm650.Dayton.NCR.COM
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note that the X-Mailer line is included in this file.  It is not compiled
into elm itself.

The reason for this is that elm stuck it's own X-Mailer header below the
return receipt to, and our mail router required the "Return-Receipt-To"
be the last line prior to the message to function properly.

Of course, you could hack up elm to do this.  This is left as an
exercise to the reader :-)
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