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Subject: RE: Handling return receipts
From: Peter Bowyer <pbowyer @ verity . com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:04:11 -0000
To: "'majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com'" <majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com>

I have a series of taboo-header and taboo-body expressions which catch a
large percentage of common ones. The rest just get through to the list -
the first time, anyway.

Peter

>----------
>From: 	Roman Richardson[SMTP:Roman.Richardson@state.mn.us]
>Sent: 	Thursday, April 17, 1997 4:20 PM
>To: 	Dave Barr
>Cc: 	majordomo-users@greatcircle.com
>Subject: 	Re: Handling return receipts 
>
>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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