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Re: How to get return receipt in elm/mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lefty)
Sat Jun 22 05:38:05 1996
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 09:18:54 GMT
From: lefty@lefty.novasys.com (Lefty)
To: root@ns1.wwi.com, sateeshbv@inf.com
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> > Is there any way in elm/mail Tool in which the sender gets a message saying
> > that the recipient has read/received the mail ? Just like return receipt in
> > Lotus cc:Mail .
>
> Good question, I'd also be interested in knowing.
Well the way that the smtp protocol works is that if mail is delivered nothing
is returned, they would have to use a mail tool that replies to you saying
they read it.. As for checking to see if their sendmail daemon received it
every implementation I have seen will return the mail to you if it didnt go
through and nothing if it did (while this isnt fool proof it is accurate
a large percent of the time)..
