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From: steve@raspail.UUCP (Steve Schonberger)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Feature addition idea
Message-ID: <1094@raspail.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 00:21:07 GMT
Organization: Control Data Corporation, Arden Hills, MN
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One neat feature that I think would be good to have in elm is the
	Return-Receipt-To:
header line.  It would be nice enough just to have it there so I
don't have to type out that header name in a user defined header,
and incredibly great to be able to have it generated automatically.

I imagine adding a non-smart return receipt line would be pretty
simple, and ask that it be considered in the development effort.  I
may try hacking it in myself, if I feel ambitious enough.  I suspect
that a smart return receipt generator would be quite a nasty task,
and likely very non-portable.  I would not expect it to be workable
as a quick hack to get it into the next release, except possibly if
it were set to a default that was compiled in to sites that have a
domain address that works from about anywhere.

One of my friends has an x.400 mailer, and her system does have a
smart return receipt generator, but porting x.400 specific features
to a UUCP based mailer seems as bad as writing it from scratch.  A
possible semi-portable system for the job, for systems with the
pathalias database present, would be to look up the smail path to
the intended site, and reverse it.  I can't imagine making that work
properly for multiple receipients though.

Keep up the good work!

	Steve Schonberger
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