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From: NTIN36@gec-b.rutherford.ac.UK (Jim Craigie)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway
Subject: Confirmed Reports and Return of Contents (was: The disjunct-RFC822
         domain problem and DD.RFC-822)
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Date: 16 Mar 91 14:49:22 GMT
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     From:    Bertrand Buclin <buclin@ch.epfl.sic>
     Subject: Re: The disjunct-RFC822 domain problem and DD.RFC-822
     Date:    25 Feb 91 23:44:09 GMT

     RFC 987 ask to set the P1.PerRecipientFlag to Confirmed if we want to
     have message contents returned in case of non delivery.

RFC 987 section 5.3 specifies two methods for providing Return of Contents
service:

The method in paragraph 2 does not seem to me to require P1.PerRecipientFlag
to be set to confirmed, so I would support deleting the requirement here.

The method in paragraph 3 definitely requires Confirmed reports. However,
this whole method is quite suspect as it places the unrealistic requirement
that reports be routed back on the same route as the subject message.

                         Jim