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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Read Receipts & Return Receipts in E-mail
Message-ID: <11428@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 89 19:49:04 GMT
Organization: U of Ky, Math. Sciences, Lexington KY
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Some people using MMDF are wanting to implement some sort of features
for returning indicators for when mail is delivered and/or read.
There are good reasons for wanting to do this, and I'm interested
in implementing the "when mail is delivered" version at least.

I know already that we're treading beyond area charted in the standards
and so must rely on de-facto standards.

So -- what are all of the ways people know of for implementing things
of this nature in e-mail?

Off the top of my head ..

	SendMail	supports (only in some versions?) a Return-Receipt-To:
			header line which takes an address(es?) to send
			delivery notification.
		
	Some BITNET mailer	uses an Acknowledge-To: line at the end
			of the body of the message for some unknown purpose.

	ALL-IN-1	Does something of this sort but I don't know what.


Any help would be appreciated.
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