[10091] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Adding services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Barrett)
Mon Feb 7 06:01:24 1994
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 12:57:45 +0200 (SAST)
From: Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
To: stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
Cc: JE01@academia.swt.edu, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9402051924.AA08583@spare-parts.crd.Ge.Com>
On Sat, 5 Feb 1994, Dick St.Peters wrote:
> This is built into most mail systems - it's part of the RFC822 mail
> standard. Add the header
> Return-Receipt-To: <your-address>
> and you'll get receipts back.
"Return-Receipt-to:" is *not* defined in RFC822 or in any other RFC. It's
an extension built into the "sendmail" implementation, and perhaps copied
by some other implementations. Many people think that it's a bad idea;
ask on comp.mail.misc.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
