Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!stan!imp From: imp@Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Certified SMTP mail Message-ID: <1991Feb8.223539.18629@Solbourne.COM> Date: 8 Feb 91 22:35:39 GMT References: Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc., Longmont, CO Lines: 23 In article MGRJTC@ROSEVC.Rose-Hulman.EDU ("Jerrod T. Carter, Networking Manager") writes: >This is accomplished by putting a line in the headers that only PMAIL >recognizes. Now to the point. What would other people think of making some sort >of standard header line that other mailers can act on? There is a header called Return-Receipt: that various sendmail versions seem to grok. Maybe that is the way to go.... Note that delivering the mail doesn't actually mean that the person will read the mail. Every month or two around here a couple of people loose mail because of a disk crash w/no backup since the incoming mail was sent. I don't know what PMAIL does, but unless return receipt is integrated into the mail reading program, it too would suffer from this problem. Also, I didn't think NOVELL used TCP/IP at all. Don't they use IPX? Warner -- Warner Losh imp@Solbourne.COM We sing about Beauty and we sing about Truth at $10,000 a show.