Re: Return receipt in mail [not BBDB related]

1994-05-06 Thread Jack Repenning
Jamie Zawinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> just wrote: Yes, I think the only one of those that is actually useful for anything other than debugging the mailer (which users shouldn't have to do, dammit) is > Message actually read by recipient Actually, we generally

Re: Return receipt in mail [not BBDB related]

1994-05-06 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Jack Repenning wrote: > > Message sent off your system > Message arrived at recipient's system > Message delivered to recipient's mailbox > Message actually read by recipient > > I always had my doubts about a system that not only provided, but actually > needed, an acknow

Re: Return receipt in mail [not BBDB related]

1994-05-06 Thread Jack Repenning
Recently, Jamie Zawinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AMS is the only thing that has ever implemented Return-receipt-to correctly. Well, not the *only*. HP's MPE mail system HPDESK allows you to select any combination of acknowledgements: Message sent off your system

Re: Return receipt in mail [not BBDB related]

1994-05-06 Thread Jamie Zawinski
AMS is the only thing that has ever implemented Return-receipt-to correctly. It needs to be in the MUA, not the MTA. Of what possible use is it to know that it has ended up in the sendmail queue on the destination machine?

Re: Return receipt in mail [not BBDB related]

1994-05-06 Thread Rick Busdiecker
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 11:56:59 --100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Francois Felix Ingrand) Our mailer here at laas adds a Return Receipt to *every* outgoing mail (this was requested by our direction) no need to say that this is rather annoying... You could always add: R

Re: Return receipt in mail [not BBDB related]

1994-05-06 Thread Francois Felix Ingrand
Our mailer here at laas adds a Return Receipt to *every* outgoing mail (this was requested by our direction) no need to say that this is rather annoying... I notice that if you put an empty Return Receipt, our sendmail does not add one, so I have the following hack to ask me if I do want a R

Re: Return receipt in mail [not BBDB related]

1994-05-06 Thread Robert Nicholson
Jamie Zawinski wrote: > > I'm perfectly willing to install some new piece of clueless loser mail > handling software and spend days trying to figure out what's wrong with it > and how it's interacting with whatever garbage is in /usr/lib/aliases and > /etc/sendmail.cf. Just as soon as each of yo