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Q112915: PC Win: How Windows Client Handles Return Receipts

Article: Q112915
Product(s): Microsoft Mail For PC Networks
Version(s): WINDOWS:3.0b,3.2
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 07-NOV-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Mail for Windows, versions 3.0b, 3.2 
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SUMMARY
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In versions 3.0b and 3.2 of Microsoft Mail for Windows, a return receipt is
marked and handled as a high-priority mail message, regardless of the actual
priority set for that message. This is designed to match the way the MS-DOS
workstation handles registered mail.

To translate between the two clients:

  MS-DOS priority    -> Windows priority
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       1                     Low
       2                     Normal
       3                     Normal
       4                     High
       5                     High
       R                     High, with Return Receipt


  Windows priority   ->   MS-DOS priority
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     Low                      1
     Normal                   3
     High                     4 or 5 (see ** below)
     Return Receipt           R

There is no way to distinguish between a message with high priority and a message
with a return receipt in the Windows client. Both messages appear with an
exclamation point (!) to the left of the icon in the From: heading.

** The Windows client high priority is 5 if the user has been given urgent
privileges through the Mail Administrator program; otherwise, it is 4.

Additional query words: 3.00b 3.20

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbMailSearch kbZNotKeyword3 kbMail320 kbMail300b
Version           : WINDOWS:3.0b,3.2

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