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From: page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Re: CONFIRM-DELIVERY
Message-ID: <685@ulowell.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Oct-86 13:37:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 20 13:37:59 1986
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Reply-To: page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page)
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I missed the initial posting that Glenn followed up to, but on a
variation of his suggestion, why can't confirmation of delivery
be based on the USPS?

For example, if a header line asks for confirmation, the mail agent
tells the recipient that s/he has a 'registered letter' from
user@host.domain, and would they please sign for it?  "Just typing
<CR> will be fine, thank you."  Once it has been delivered (to the
user's mailbox), a confirmation is sent to the From:/Sender: address.

If the message isn't picked up within a certain period of time
(Confirm-Timeout: ?), it is marked as 'unanswered' and returned to
the sender.

..Bob


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