Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:10:19 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is there a way to get an ACK from the mutt version of FBSD? Message-ID: <87fxkrn2us.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20081213215050.GA49669@thought.org> (Gary Kline's message of "Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:50:53 -0800") References: <20081213215050.GA49669@thought.org>
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On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:50:53 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> 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. 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.
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