[plug] Return Receipt on List (was M$ wants you to pay & Mac to go OSS)

[Bret Busby]

I have just been able to download my emails, after some days without the
ability.

What is the problem with the receipting?

I use the receipting as a default, as the nature of some of the emails that
I send to places apart from the mailing list, warrants receipting. It shows
that people have received the emails, and, where provided, when the emails
are received, and when the recipient displays the emails. That gives me
recourse, when the recipients neither acknowledge, nor respond to, highly
important emails.

I have, in the course of sending emails, sent emails to various types of
mail servers, including Microsoft, UNIX, and Linux, and have had no
complaints, apart from the one below, and the previous one that I received,
to which you refer. I was going to query the previous one, but, in the
download of about three hundred emails from the PLUG mailing list alone, at
one time, parsing them manually, and responding, takes a while.

I understood that Linux is supposed to be more resilient than other
operating systems, so I am concerned that the receipting appears to cause a
problem only on this mailing list.

I subscribe to a number of mailing lists, with the others being unrelated to
Linux, and have had no reported problems with anyone else.

Thus, I ask for an explanation.

I have turned off the receipting manually, for this email, but am concerned
that this mailing list is so delicate.

A response would be appreciated.

Bret Busby
____________________________

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
Of Christian
Sent: 19 March 1999 16:25
To: plug at linux.org.au
Subject: [plug] Return Receipt on List (was M$ wants you to pay & Mac to
go OSS)


Can people posting to the mailing list please refrain from having
read/return receipt on?  I'm specifically referring to Bret Busby who I
think was asked before and still hasn't done it yet.  I think the
problem, Bret, is the email client you're using - Microsoft Outlook
tends to do stupid things with regard to these receipts.

Thanks,

Christian.

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