On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 12:33:22PM +0200, Simon Ruderich wrote: > > Either > directly or in a wrapper script (which could even be in C, but I > would use something faster to develop, like Shell, Perl, Python, > ..) used in $editor. It would check the mail after you exit the > editor, and then ask you - based on a configuration file - if you > want to add a request, and if yes add the necessary header.
Yes, other programming languages than C would be better suited for this, but I'd have to learn them first. > But if the recipient doesn't care about your mail, then how does > adding a receipt request help? In this case, I started to request them because they don't answer --- and guess what, I got a reciept. That way they can't claim they didn't get my mail. It's extremely useful. Besides, do you seriously trust in that every admin involved has set up their mailservers correctly? Do you seriously trust in that email never gets lost? Do you seriously trust in that you will always get an error message sent back to you in case something goes wrong? I've seen servers at ISPs set up so that they don't even accept error messages sent to them ... In this case, the alternative would be to print the message on paper to deliver it in person and have them certify that they recieved it. I like return reciepts better for now. > >> Practice has shown that it is not best practice. > > > > Because of poor support, maybe :) > > Or because it's a bad idea. It's still way better than the alternative. > like them) easily be done with $display_filter. Ah, that's cool :) Now I have the pieces I'd need to interface with mutt, thanks.
