From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 9 09:40:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA25305 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 09:40:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA25232 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 09:40:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA23288; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 10:38:10 -0700 Message-Id: <199602091738.KAA23288@rover.village.org> To: "Ulf Zimmermann" Subject: Re: mail sending problem (how can this happen?) Cc: "Christoph P. Kukulies" , freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 09 Feb 1996 08:34:35 PST Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 10:38:10 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk : Return-Receipt: line into your mailheaders. Return-receipt isn't standardized, but it mostly works. If you get it, all that means, typically with sendmail, is that the mail was placed in the user's /var/mail/xxxx file correctly (or that any mail sorting programs "accepted" it). It doesn't mean that the person or persons that you sent it to actually read and/or understood the mail message. It is like to be "good enough" proof that the person in question did get the mail message.[*] However, if you don't get a return receipt, it doesn't mean the person didn't get the mail either. Warner [*] If someone from the list of "kiss of death" sites that I have sends me mail, return receipt requested, they will get a return receipt, but I'll never see the mail because slocal destroys it. Anybody know how to make slocal actually bounce the mail?