Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 10:38:10 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Ulf Zimmermann" <ulf@z-code.ncd.com> Cc: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail sending problem (how can this happen?) Message-ID: <199602091738.KAA23288@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 09 Feb 1996 08:34:35 PST
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: Return-Receipt: line into your mailheaders. Return-receipt isn't standardized, but it mostly works. If you get it, all that means, typically with sendmail, is that the mail was placed in the user's /var/mail/xxxx file correctly (or that any mail sorting programs "accepted" it). It doesn't mean that the person or persons that you sent it to actually read and/or understood the mail message. It is like to be "good enough" proof that the person in question did get the mail message.[*] However, if you don't get a return receipt, it doesn't mean the person didn't get the mail either. Warner [*] If someone from the list of "kiss of death" sites that I have sends me mail, return receipt requested, they will get a return receipt, but I'll never see the mail because slocal destroys it. Anybody know how to make slocal actually bounce the mail?
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