From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 14 00:03:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A980106564A for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:03:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A299B8FC1C for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:03:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mBE04KE9064345; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:04:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:03:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:03:43 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20081214000342.GC53237@thought.org> References: <20081213215050.GA49669@thought.org> <87fxkrn2us.fsf@kobe.laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87fxkrn2us.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is there a way to get an ACK from the mutt version of FBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:03:51 -0000 On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:10:19AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:50:53 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > guys, > > > > i did something to evolution (or mail) so it sends a "your mail was > > opened on user@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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.12a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php