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From: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Receipts
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Date: 10 Oct 90 08:48:07 GMT
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Reply-To: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest)
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A few months back our mail system was down for a longish period (about a week
or so, if I remember correctly), and when it came back up, we observed that a
few people received receipt mails from the mailer confirming mail delivery. I
have never seen this before or since, and it could have just been a fluke that
we saw it then. However, can anybody tell me if there is a standard method
of getting a mailer to confirm mail delivery? I would not want this all the time,
but there are occations when it would be useful.

John Forrest,
Dept. of Computation
UMIST