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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding...
- Message-ID: <davecb.725771350@yorku.ca>
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- Organization: York University
- References: <1992Dec20.022054@avsht.sph.spb.su> <19921225.001@erik.naggum.no> <sdorner-271292095054@0.0.0.0>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:09:10 GMT
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- sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner) writes:
- |I think it is high time that some form of standard return receipt were
- |available in Internet mail. It's one of the few functional areas where the
- |Internet lags behind practically ever proprietary mail system, and X.400 to
- |boot.
-
- Well, the historical reason this wasn't necessary/desirable/done is
- called finger. For those machines which supported the smtp and finger
- protocols, one could usually discover if the recipient had undelivered
- mail, or whether she had read it.
-
- Sendmail added return reciepts, but primarily for working through gateways...
-
- I regularly finger people, then look to see when my message was sent.
- Result? I know if it was read.
- I already **know** it was delivered: I didn't get a ``599 mail undeliverable:
- recipient had moved to mars'' message.
-
- --dave
-
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- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@CCS.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
- 72 Abitibi Ave., |
- Willowdale, Ontario, | York Postmaster and
- CANADA. 416-223-8968 | occasional sendfail(8) consultant.
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