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Re: How to get return receipt in elm/mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Vicherek)
Sat Jun 22 08:53:56 1996
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 03:09:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jan Vicherek <honza@ied.com>
Reply-To: Jan Vicherek <honza@ied.com>
To: Michel Oosterhof <kirth@cal022011.student.utwente.nl>
cc: linux-dev-net@info2.nic.surfnet.nl
In-Reply-To: <4qesk6$rc3@dinkel.civ.utwente.nl>
On 21 Jun 1996, Michel Oosterhof wrote:
> "sateeshbv" <sateeshbv@inf.com> writes:
>
> >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 .
>
> Nope this is not possible. You should receive a mail if the message
> does _not_ arrive. But you it's just impossible to know if or if not the user
> has read your email.
I don't kwow about "recipient has read the mail" msg, but "recipient has
received the mail" goes as follows :
I may be very well wrong, but I vaguely remember someone mentioning
somewhere, that a version of sendmail is able to respond to
"Return-Recipt-To:" field when delivering localy to a mailbox.
Thus (I use only Pine) : in the setup menu for pine add custom header :
Return-Recipt-To: <your@email.address>
That should do it. (But maybe not.)
Also (if it doesn't work with sendmail), if you are sending it to
someone with whom you can negotiate to process the incoming mail,
"procmail" is a useful filtering pgm, which would be able to detect the
"Return-Recipt-To:" field, and could confirm arrival of the mail.
hope this helps,
Jan
