On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:10:19AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:50:53 -0800, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote:
> > guys,
> >
> > i did something to evolution (or mail) so it sends a "your mail was
> > opened on u...@foo.com". i've been hunting thru the mutt docs; i do
> > not see how to get a similar ack from mutt as evo. is there, perhaps
> > a sendmail.[cf|mc] way lost in the reams of pages in my sendmail book?
> > [2 da ago i send cold-call mail to a few experts; one at least read my
> > paragraph. i'd like to know at least that my mail arr and hopefully
> > was glanced at!]
>
> I don't think there's a way to *force* the recipients of your messages
> to reply whenever they read a post. Your MUA can "ask" for this sort of
> 'email receipt', but the recipient can always ignore it.
certainly.
>
> My mailers always ignore this sort of mis-feature, for instance, because
> I consider it a violation of my privacy. Whenever I get one of these
> ``call home'' emails, I can't help but think:
>
> ``Why would you want to know that I woke up in the middle of the night,
> fired up Emacs, read a few qmail messages, but then thought it best to
> keep sleeping rather than reply to your message?''
>
> Having said that, you can configure _your_ mutt instance to send DSN
> replies. Look for the dsn_notify and dsn_return options in the manual
> of Mutt.
>
AH, alright; i shall look, thanx. and i promise never to expect
*anyone*
to 1) respond instantaneously, or 2) to even respond. nonetheless,
it'd be
nice to know that "professor life-or-death" GOT my message. or maybe
it was
a cat-on-keyboard.....
ok. it's set up. now at least i know if the mail got to the other end.
no delay,failure.
thank you,
gary
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