On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:05:40PM +0100, Alain Bench wrote: > Hello Charles, hello ALL, and happy new year for everyone! > > I'm new in this list, and not really fluent in english, sorry. But > it's a good day to begin. :-) > > > On Monday, December 31, 2001 at 11:15:10 AM +0800, Charles Jie wrote: > > > I was able to request for receipt in my mail while using Outlook > > Express or Netscape. But how to do it in Mutt? > > Put this line in your muttrc to always request for receipt: > > my_hdr Disposition-Notification-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or just insert the field into header while composing a mail for a > one time request. > > AFAIK Mutt itself doesn't reply to such incoming requests, nor deals > automatically with the message/disposition-notification reports comming > back. Am I right? Or is there a script or patch somewhere? > The MTA's involved have to understand this, all of them along the way if I recall correctly, so it is not a guarantee. Since people get the option not to allow the sending of the receipt back in Outlook and Netscape it means squat anyway.
Frankly it is a diabolical practise, causes uneccessary and pointless mail. If a mail is so important that you *must* be certain it has been read then phone the person up. Since the mechanism is inherently unreliable anyway, what is the point of using it ? -- Regards Cliff
