From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 13 22:10:33 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 69E461065675 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:10:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66008FC1E for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:10:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl75-59.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.122.59]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id mBDMAM63031146 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:10:28 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mBDMAMtl006153; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:10:22 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id mBDMAKk7006152; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:10:20 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Gary Kline References: <20081213215050.GA49669@thought.org> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:10:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20081213215050.GA49669@thought.org> (Gary Kline's message of "Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:50:53 -0800") Message-ID: <87fxkrn2us.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: mBDMAM63031146 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.859, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.54, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No 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: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:10:33 -0000 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. 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.