[10067] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Adding services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JR Oldroyd)
Sat Feb 5 14:50:34 1994
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 94 14:46:26 EST
From: "JR Oldroyd" <jr@opal.com>
> In re: Lloyds posting, the thing I hear most often, is business people wanting
> some sort of "return-receipt-requested". This is to say -- they want to know
> that *that* message was received (and for that matter, read). They have gotton
> used to it using Compu$erve, and want Internet e-mail to do it too.
>
Sendmail, the delivery agent used on most UNIX systems has supported
a Return-Receipt-To: header for years. You'll be notified when your
message is delivered to the destination mailbox, i.e., not when it
is read -- but you may be able to finger the recipient to determine
this.
-jr
