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From: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Return Receipt
Message-ID: <2396@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 3 Feb 88 05:57:09 GMT
References: <4890@pyr.gatech.EDU> <1512@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> <237@icus.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <237@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>In article <1512@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> taylor@hplabs.HP.COM (Dave Taylor) writes:
>|>Ken Hall asks:
>|>> Is there any way to turn on return receipt in ELM?
>|>The nickle and dime way would be to add 
>|>	Return-Receipt-Requested:
>|>(or whatever the header is) to your ~/.elmheaders file . . . but
>
>This is good only if your mailer understands the header 
>"Return-Receipt-Requested: lenny@icus.UUCP"  But smail2.5 doesn't.  I
>assume sendmail does?   Does elm understand this syntax and automatically
>send a return receipt?  Or is this in a later version.  I am running 1.7 beta.
>
I believe the correct header line is:

Return-receipt-to: person@site

Smail 2.5 spits out receipts if it see one like that (at least here it does.)
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