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Subject: Re: Handling return receipts
From: Roman Richardson <Roman . Richardson @ state . mn . us>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:20:14 -0500
To: Dave Barr <barr @ math . psu . edu>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM

At 11:55 AM 4/17/97 -0400, Dave Barr wrote:
>In message <2.2.32.19970417152716.006c9030@mail.state.mn.us>, Roman Richardson 
>writes:
>>   I was wondering what people do with return receipts?  We've got a few
>> users on systems that generate a return receipt everyt ime a message is sent
>>to them.  Unfortuantely the address that the receipt is sent back to is
>>"Return-Path:" which points back to the actual majordomo.  Is there a way to
>>rewrite the "Return-Path:" header so that it points to the list owner?
>
>If by "return receipts" you mean the "Return-Receipt-To:" header,
>the correct thing is to ignore them.  They were never a standard,
>and have been officially obsoleted by DSNs, Delivery Status Notifications.
>See RFC's 1891 and 1894.  Recent sendmail versions ignore Return-Receipt-To
>by default and handle only DSNs.

No, I'm not talking about the header, I'm talking about the message that
get's sent back to the sender when delivery is successful.  I have checked,
and there is no way to turn them off at the user's site.  And I guess I
should have used the proper term "Delivery Status Notification".

Any other thoughts?
---
Roman Richardson
Information Technology Specialist 4
Dept. of Administration / InterTechnologies Group
<mailto:Roman.Richardson@state.mn.us>



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