Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 13:59:33 EDT From: bill@gauss.eedsp.gatech.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Ctrl-A's at Beginning and End of Digest Reply-To: bill@eedsp.gatech.edu Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 429, Message 4 of 12 Lines: 26 These Ctrl-A's are a result of Pat's NWU host using the MMDF mailer. MMDF is a MTA (mail transport agent), sometimes used in place of the bundled Unix 'sendmail' MTA. I could tell when they switched MTAs on the NWU host because my "Return-receipt-to:", which is standard in all my off-site mail headers, no longer sent a return receipt. MMDF does not support return-receipt-to. At least not yet and not as far as I know. Bill Berbenich Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{backbones}!gatech!eedsp!bill Internet: bill@eedsp.gatech.edu [Moderator's Note: You are correct about the use of mmdf as the mail agent at this site. When various messages are kept in a mailbox here, the control A's are separators between them. You should not usually see these because they are stripped away. When I remailed those three issues the other day (mainly because MCI upchucked and dumped the whole thing several issues in a row) I took copies from my archives files to retransmit, and forgot to remove the control A's between them. Although your return-receipt-to does not work here, *most* mail to telecom@eecs.nwu.edu gets an autoreply from me. There are some technical reasons why a few of you never get the autoreply. PAT]