[imp] Receipts?

[Joseph Brennan]

>> > The modern version is a Delivery Status Notice but I don't know
>> > what a MUA like IMP should put into a message to trigger a DSN.
>> > Anyone? Not all mail hosts have been updated to software that does
>> > DSNs.
>>
>> This is an SMTP extension (RFC1891) - you can't trigger it with
>> anything in the message.
>
> More specifically, you need to set the -N option on your sendmail
> command line. Not sure about other mta software.


Yes, but there seems to be no provision for an ordinary user to
say whether a DSN is wanted?  If we could get them to log in and
run sendmail by hand, all this bother with IMP could be avoided :-)

Joseph Brennan                           postmaster@columbia.edu
Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems (AcIS)