From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 13 23:42:15 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 5A9DE106564A for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:42:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE998FC14 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:42:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-196-68-238.dynamic.qsc.de [92.196.68.238]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3636A3CDE4; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:42:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id mBDNfvfB001615; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:41:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:41:57 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Gary Kline Message-Id: <20081214004157.435fb5e5.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20081213215050.GA49669@thought.org> References: <20081213215050.GA49669@thought.org> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List 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 Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:42:15 -0000 I don't know if it has already been mentioned, but the only kind of receive confirmation you get from your FreeBSD system itself is the success entry in /var/log/maillog which will inform you that either the POP/SMTP server facility where the recipient has his mail account successfully received the message or the information that the "SmartHost" mail relay has accepted the message for relaying (in case your sendmail subsystem just hands mail over to a relay). Any kind of confirmation that the recipient has read the message is up to his mail client application. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...