Re: About Return-receipt-to

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Author: Dom Mitchell
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To: Nigel Metheringham
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: About Return-receipt-to
Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> bulcao@??? said:
> } I've checked that "as-is" Exim ignores the "Return-receipt-to:"
> } header. Does anybody knows if is it possible to define a driver to
> } treat this header as sendmail does? We are using Exim v.1.62.
>
> It would certainly be possible to add something in the system filter file,
> or rather better a transport filter file.
>
> However it would be a stupid thing to do. Even sendmail no longer
> supports Return-receipt-to:, and it has never been a standard (in the
> sense of it appears in no RFC).
>
> If you want delivery notification it should be done in the MUA using the
> MDN stuff that appears in a recent RFC.


What do people feel about the DSN stuff? That would require changes
to exim alas, as it has extra stuff added into SMTP... As far as
I know, the only thing which supports it is sendmail.

-Dom

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