Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 09:36:34 -0800 From: "Ulf Zimmermann" <ulf@z-code.ncd.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "Ulf Zimmermann" <ulf@z-code.ncd.com> Cc: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail sending problem (how can this happen?) Message-ID: <9602090936.ZM1100@zolaris.z-code.com> In-Reply-To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> "Re: mail sending problem (how can this happen?)" (Feb 9, 10:38) References: <199602091738.KAA23288@rover.village.org>
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On Feb 9, 10:38, Warner Losh wrote:
> Subject: Re: mail sending problem (how can this happen?)
> : 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
That's right. Never said something else, but maybe also not pointed out this.
> 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
>
>-- End of excerpt from Warner Losh
Ulf.
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