On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 11:30:53 AM +0800, Charles Jie wrote:
> After reading Cliff's post and mutt's manual, I am not sure whether
> Disposition-Notification-To: will do what I want.
It will. Exactly as the « request read receipt for all outgoing
mails » option in tools/options/receipts or « request read receipt »
function in tools menu in the composition window of MSOE will. Exactly
as the same function in Netscape will. In fact these functions only
effect is to add this field in outgoing headers.
Exactly like with OE or NC, you will only receive back a receipt if
the recipient has an MDN compatible mailer, opens your mail, and accepts
to send the receipt.
Cliff has mixed things, and seems to dislike the DSN and/or MDN
systems. Mutt's manual version 1.2.5 doesn't talk at all about MDN. It
talks about DSN.
BTW: Cliff's reaction teach us that MDN requests can be taken as
something rude, annoying or privacy intrusive by some recipients in some
circumstances. Or something like a reply requirement. So use it
carefully. There should be some sort of « acceptable MDN usage policy »
addendum to Netiquette. ;-)
> It's said it's dealt with by MTA. And reports success when the
> "transmission" succeeds. -- Does that mean the mail just succeessfully
> drops into the recipient's mbox instead of being opened for reading?
Yes. Into his system mailbox, or POP3 account, or anywhere the last
MTA of the MTAs chain delivers. But that's DSN.
Bye! Alain.
PS: Had to reread carefully my own mail to correct mixed up TLAs. Hope
there is no more error. All these Three Letters Acronyms are a
headache! :-)
