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  2. Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.headers
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uchinews!machine!chinet!les
  4. From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
  5. Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To: header reliable?
  6. Message-ID: <BuF5n6.KJB@chinet.chi.il.us>
  7. Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
  8. References: <1992Sep05.124731.8552@golem.uucp> <Bu9B21.J2G@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> <1992Sep10.080432.12737@Veritas.COM>
  9. Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:59:29 GMT
  10. Lines: 15
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Sep10.080432.12737@Veritas.COM> tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr) writes:
  13. >>
  14. >>smail also supports Return-Receipt-To: headers.
  15. >
  16. >Which smail?  Smail2.5 didn't, last I checked.  The official releases
  17. >of smail3.1 don't, although I believe that some unofficial patches are
  18. >filtering around that do this.
  19.  
  20. Smail3 doesn't need any patches to the executable for this.  All you have to
  21. do is add a transport entry that pipes to a shell script or program that
  22. generates the receipts if requested, then add it as a shadow transport
  23. to local delivery.
  24.  
  25. Les Mikesell
  26.   les@chinet.chi.il.us
  27.