[pmmail-list] Return receipts

[L.Willms]

   As to headers in Internet email, I recommend -- besides the Standards 
RFC8221 and RFC8222 -- Jacob Palme's RFC 2076:  "Common Internet Message 
Headers", which status is "informational". Palme has the following to say 
about the header here in question: 


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   Address to which notifications       Errors-To:,    Non-standard,
   are to be sent and a request to      Return-        discouraged.
   get delivery notifications.          Receipt-To:
   Internet standards recommend,
   however, the use of RCPT TO and
   Return-Path, not Errors-To, for
   where delivery notifications are
   to be sent.

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   The status words are explained by Palme as: 

   "non-standard"          This header is not specified in any of
                           referenced RFCs which define Internet
                           protocols, including Internet Standards, draft
                           standards or proposed standards. The header
                           appears here because it often appears in e-
                           mail or Usenet News. Usage of these headers is
                           not in general recommended. Some header
                           proposed in ongoing IETF standards development
                           work, but not yet accepted, are also marked in
                           this way.


   "discouraged"           This header, which is non-standard, is known
                           to create problems and should not be
                           generated. Handling of such headers in
                           incoming mail should be done with great
                           caution.

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On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:56:29 -0400, Steve Marvin wrote:

> 
> What if the Return-Receipt-To: is different from the From: or Reply-To: ? 
The
> canned reply I believe goes (I believe) to the originator.
> 
> If PMMail had a rexx api you could write a user hook that sent a receipt on
> that tag 'Return-Receipt-To' and even the one msclients are using
> 'X-Confirm-Reading-To' (I Think).

    Menno Tillema's message which you replied to, explains how to create such 
a user hook -- a simple filter which is triggered by "h.Return-Receipt-To:". 
In case you want really to use the address given on that header, you can 
select to start an external program as the action. It is all in there, you 
just have to dig. Dig it? 

 
Yours, 
Lüko Willms
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Frankfurt/Main  

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