From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 18:05:13 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA14822 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 18:05:13 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA14808 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 18:05:04 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA12957; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:03:29 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510110133.LAA12957@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Return reciepts? To: root@jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil (Jeffrey D. Dean ROOT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:03:28 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Jeffrey D. Dean ROOT" at Oct 10, 95 03:55:43 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 932 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jeffrey D. Dean ROOT stands accused of saying: > > Does sendmail as a daemon support return receipts in sending e-mail? > I have not been able to make this happen. I am using Pine 3.91 for my > front end. Is this a SMTP option only? If by 'return receipts' you mean 'so-and-so has read your mail' messages, sendmail has no business sending them, so no, it wouldn't. Receipts are inherently evil anyway. If you don't get a error, it means that it worked and you don't have to worry about it. KISS. > - Jeffrey D. Dean SrA - -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[