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- From: kehres@ima.com (Tim Kehres)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding...
- Message-ID: <292@ima.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 00:45:06 GMT
- References: <1992Dec20.022054@avsht.sph.spb.su> <1992Dec25.161948.9506@blilly.UUCP>
- Organization: International Messaging Associates, Menlo Park, California
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- In article <1992Dec25.161948.9506@blilly.UUCP> lilb@sony.compuserve.com (bruce Lilly) writes:
- :
- > >Should my mailer send one more notifying message to the
- > >author?
- >
- > I believe that it should not do so (I was once bombarded by return receipts
- > after sending a bug report to one of FSF's bug-reporting addresses, which
- > expanded to a mailing list).
-
- This is one reason why return receipt and delivery notification requests
- should be standarized. If standardized, then the distribution list software
- could be modified to look for these requests, and perform the required
- function. For most lists, I would suspect that no action would be taken
- for a return receipt request, other than its removal from the header. A
- delivery notification request however would generate a reply back to the
- originator indicating final delivery to the list, and then remove the request
- from the header. There are some list maintainers however that may wish to
- pass these requests through the list, and that should be allowed, if that is
- what the owner of the list desires.
-
- Best Regards,
-
- Tim Kehres
-