On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 05:15:36PM +0100, Toby Cubitt wrote: > the Disposition-Notification-To: header. So to request receipts, it may > be sufficient to add this header to your outgoing emails using mutt's > my_hdr command.
That puts the header into every outgoing email, and ppl on mailing lists will complain about it. > As for automatically sending a read receipt when you open a mail in mutt, > I imagine it should be possible to cook something up using message-hooks > and a little scripting. If you can do what I described in my OP with a little scripting, that's great for you, but I don't see how to do it. I'd have to write a program in C for it and somehow make it work with mutt --- and preferably make it so that it can be used with other MUAs as well. I don't know of any MUA that deals with return reciepts in the way described in my OP. > So, with a little effort, what you want can probably already be done > using standard mutt features (plus maybe some external tools for > automatically sending receipts). Ok, how so? Refer to to my OP for a more detailed description of how it's supposed to work ... > > As to comments about the requests being ignored and therefore > > pointless: Sorry, but these comments are themselves pointless. > > No, the comments were not pointless. I'm aware of the issues involved with return reciepts but still have use for them. It's not my intention at all to debate the usefulness or privacy concerns of return reciepts in general or in particular. Such a debate wouldn't take me any closer to a solution. I'd find it much more interesting to talk about how a good support for return reciepts should be designed. This is not to say these points aren't valid. I'm not sending return reciepts, either, but that's because there isn't good support for them: None in mutt, apparently, and I've seen only MUAs that offered only to either ask if I want to send a reciept or always send one or don't send any at all. None of these three options is sufficient. If there's a MUA that can do better, I'd be curious to hear about it. And why shouldn't mutt be the MUA that can do better in that than others? Having that said, it comes to mind that more users of mutt might make use of return reciepts if there was well designed support for them ... One way to address privacy concerns could be, for example, to queue the reciepts one wants to send and then send them all at once automatically, perhaps once or twice a day at fixed times. Perhaps that's a poor idea, I don't know.
