ak>  PE> 0x4000 - an audit trail is requested
ak>
ak> i wonder for how much longer this (quite senseless) fossil will
ak> make it into new proposals.
ak>
ak> btw: where does one find the explanation of 'audit trail'.

DLHI> I believe its purpose was to check the routing of a netmail
DLHI> message.  If you route a netmail message with the audit trail bit
DLHI> set and the recipient's mail reader is capable of handling it, the
DLHI> recipient's reader will generate a response which lists the "Via"
DLHI> lines from your message.

i believe that you are correct in this... it's what my work in this area
has been based on... :)

DLHI> but I can't think of of other products which did. RRQ(return
DLHI> receipt requested) and CFM(confirmation receipt requested) in the
DLHI> FLAGS proposal by joho can accomplish much the same thing.

ummm... not quite... RRQ and CFM will allow you to see a path back to
you but it does not show the path from you to them... the two paths need
not be the same... indeed, in many cases, they are not the same...

)\/(ark