Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!trac2000!das
From: das@trac2000.ueci.com (David Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Getting acknowledge of receipt
Message-ID: <504@trac2000.ueci.com>
Date: 2 Oct 90 16:44:02 GMT
References: <1300004@hpprdea.HP.COM> <1300006@hpprdea.HP.COM> <547@cpsolv.CPS.COM>
Organization: UE&C - Catalytic in Philadelphia, PA
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In article <547@cpsolv.CPS.COM>, rhg@cpsolv.CPS.COM (Richard H. Gumpertz) 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?

I wrote a small patch for 'deliver.c' in smail2.5!  It seems to be working ok,
but I don't have the facilities to test it on BSD boxes.  If anyone wants to be
a guinna p... I mean a beta tester, let me know.  The patch is only 1819 bytes
and I'll send it to you.

DAS
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