Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!gmwi1!marque!gryphon!greg From: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Return Receipt Message-ID: <2434@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 6 Feb 88 01:23:08 GMT References: <4890@pyr.gatech.EDU> <1512@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> <237@icus.UUCP> <2396@gryphon.CTS.COM> Reply-To: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 31 Summary: Ooops -- mea culpa In article <2396@gryphon.CTS.COM> greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin) writes: >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.) Return-recipt-to: triggers a return receipt here but it's not coming from smail. Its coming from the local version of /bin/mail. I'm so embarased, I may never post anything again. -- Greg Laskin "When everybody's talking and nobody's listening, how can we decide?" INTERNET: Greg.Laskin@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax!gryphon!greg rutgers!marque!gryphon!greg codas!ddsw1!gryphon!greg