Email receipts

2501 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have been looking around for a way to send out emails via a perl module that request receipts such as MDN or DSN but I haven't seen anything that covers it when I run some searches.
Does anyone know of any good docs or modules for this?
I am willing to roll my own solution if I can find some decent documentation.
thanks for your time,
2501

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Re: Email receipts by turnstep (Parson) on Apr 26, 2001 at 00:40 UTC
All you have to is add the proper header. I don't know if any of the mail modules support that directly, but almost allow you to add a header. Personally I find return receipts rude and unnecessary, but I understand that some people like them. IIRC, the correct header is: `Return-receipt-to: you@example.com` [download] Update: Found a good blurb about it: http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/pine/faq/sending.html. Worth a read, before implementing something like this.	[reply] [d/l]
(Reading receipt) Re: Email receipts by arhuman (Vicar) on Apr 26, 2001 at 12:05 UTC
I'd just add to confirm OPENING BY THE CLIENT (work only with some mail clients (outlook is one of them)) `X-Confirm-Reading-To: yourname@your.domain` [download] "Only Bad Coders Badly Code In Perl" (OBC2IP)	[reply] [d/l]