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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:18:34 EDT
- Sender: RiceMail discussion list <MAILBOOK@RICEVM1.BITNET>
- From: "Nick Gimbrone (WIRDI)" <NJG@CORNELLC.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To?
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu,
- 23 Jul 1992 09:15:24 +0300 from <VSLAWR@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
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- On Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:15:24 +0300 Lawrence S. Kalman said:
- >On Wed, 22 Jul 92 15:51:06 EDT <Larry.H.Bradley@NRC.CA> said:
- >>Our Network Courier (aka MS Mail) system also generates
- >>Return-Receipt-To: headers ... it would be nice if RiceMail both
- >>generated and responded to these headers (92.xx release, Richard?)
- >I'm not familiar with MS mail, but I don't believe that Return-Receipt-To:
- >is defined in any "standard" such as RFC822/1123 to which RiceMail conforms.
- Yes, but then again, neither is RiceMail's 'ack' header line "standard".
- It would be a real hornet's nest to start respecting all the possible
- variations on this sort of thing... better to work for a standardization
- and moving to that... (X.400 anyone? ;-) -njg
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