Return Receipts

[erikwebb]

I feel like an idiot asking this, but can anyone out there explain to me what exactly a "return receipt" is? I understand it has something to do with receiving a confirmation that the recipients of the email actually received it. If this is in fact what it is, I think it'd be quite useful when it comes to debugging (I am working on a mailing list manager right now). Is there any kind of header that you can add to an email to accomplish this or, otherwise, is there a hard coding way?

Any Help Is Appreciated.

[[deleted]]

You should just be able to add a header:

$headers .= "Return-Receipt-to: <[e-mail]>\n";

[erikwebb]

thanks, i wasn't sure if there was simply a header. on the topic, is there any place where there is a list of all the possible mail() headers?

[[deleted]]

Try here:

http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/ietf/mail-headers/

[erikwebb]

Thank you very much for your help.