Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!vision!chris From: chris@vision.uucp (Chris Davies) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Read receipts for mail? Message-ID: <1991Jan30.172210.18345@vision.uucp> Date: 30 Jan 91 17:22:10 GMT References: <1991Jan29.143250.14882@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <36527@netnews.upenn.edu> <1991Jan29.183855.4781@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK Lines: 30 In article <1991Jan29.183855.4781@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> jjohnson@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (James R. Johnson) writes: > [...] On one system that I have access >to, (for work purposes) I can flag certain email messages that I send "read >receipt requested". When the party receives the email and it has been read, >a message is sent to my account that tells me that they indeed received it. Ethics aside, you are depending on a non-standard "feature" of sendmail (and possibly MMDF?) to perform this return-receipt facility. If you must insist on using it, then (at least under elm 2.2) you can arrange for certain headers to be added to your email automatically. You simply add the required headers to the file $HOME/.elm/elmheaders or your equivalent (.elm/ is where things like the elmrc are kept). Thus you could specify the following in this file Return-Receipt-To: jjohnson@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu There was a lengthy (open-ended) discussion (argument!?) concerning this a short time ago; the consensus seemed to be that the recipient of a message should have the option of (not) allowing an acknowlegment to be returned. It's not so much whether _you_ agree with this (or not), but whether your intended recipients agree...! Chris -- VISIONWARE LTD | UK: chris@vision.uucp JANET: chris%vision.uucp@ukc 57 Cardigan Lane | US: chris@vware.mn.org BANGNET: ...!ukc!vision!chris LEEDS LS4 2LE, England | VOICE: +44 532 788858 FAX: +44 532 304676 -------------- "VisionWare: The home of DOS/UNIX/X integration" -------------