Received: from localhost by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id QAA22388; Wed, 31 May 1995 16:30:43 -0400 X-Resent-To: drums@CS.UTK.EDU ; Wed, 31 May 1995 16:30:37 EDT Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU Received: from wilma.cs.utk.edu by CS.UTK.EDU with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id QAA22356; Wed, 31 May 1995 16:30:34 -0400 Received: from LOCALHOST by wilma.cs.utk.edu with SMTP (cf v2.11c-UTK) id QAA12618; Wed, 31 May 1995 16:30:32 -0400 Message-Id: <199505312030.QAA12618@wilma.cs.utk.edu> X-URI: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/ From: Keith Moore To: perry@imsi.com cc: Keith Moore , drums@CS.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: getting started In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 May 1995 15:51:16 EDT." <9505311951.AA20310@snark.imsi.com> Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 16:30:25 -0400 Sender: moore@CS.UTK.EDU > Keith Moore writes: > > > 3. What should be done with the current return-receipt-to mechanism? > > > > I suggest: "MTAs MUST NOT honor the Return-Receipt-To header field". > > Granted the mechanism should be replaced, but it has saved me many > hours over the years in debugging problems. When its replaced and the > replacement is universally deployed, I'll go along with what you've > suggested, but lets not shoot the cow while we are still milking it, > okay? Point taken. Return-receipt-to needs to be terminated, but perhaps not with extreme prejudice. Keith