PC Win: How Windows Client Handles Return Receipts

• Microsoft Mail for Windows, versions 3.0b and 3.2

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
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------

        1                     Low
        2                     Normal
        3                     Normal
        4                     High
        5                     High
        R                     High, with Return Receipt

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

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