-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ray,
On 6 Nov 2008 at 11:58, Ray Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > In a future Keysoft release, I would like to suggest that the ability to > request a return receipt on a message be included in Keymail. There are > sometimes people that I send mail to where I want to know when they got it, > and I can't send mail off my Braille Note if I want to put on a return > receipt. This (delivery status notifications) needs support from both KeyMail and at least your local SMTP server and ideally the remote (final) SMTP server. Read receipts need the support of KeyMail and the email client at the other end. Although these have long been standardised, there is no guarantees that these will be available (although in modern clients and servers, they should be). > Of course, it would also be nice if Keymail allowed one to send back a > return receipt if one is requested by the sender, similar to Outlook or > Outlook Express. Read receipts and delivery receipts are two different things. They can and should be implemented independently. Personally I use DSNs all the time, and can't think how I managed without them: they make email interactive. It's a big reason why I can't use KeyMail for more than just self-notes and filtered emails from given senders. > And the final feature I would like to see is the ability to set up > distribution lists. I've set up a few crude ones using other address > book fields, but it's not quite the same as creating contact groups like > you can in Outlook or Outlook Express. The best mailing lists are hosted on mail servers running mailing list managers: no email client's distribution lists feature could hold a candle to them. Putting people on a mailing list gives everybody, you included, control over exactly what is sent and received, and enables one-way or multiparty communication (well, you surely guessed that already, what with using this list). Go to http://groups.google.com/ and set up a private group for your own use. Or Yahoogroups. Both do ads. There's also freelists.org, for technology only and no ads. Freelists is nicer for email users because everything can be done using email. They run Ecartis, which I run on my own server as a personal preference. Other services use Mailman, as this list does. There's DadaMail, if you have a hosted web space that will do CGI scripts in perl - that only needs POP boxes and no special privileges to run. Or install a mail server of your own on your own box and use it. If you're on Windows, I can't recommend Mercury/32 enough - get it from http://www.pmail.com/ . It has superb mailing list management. If you're not on Windows, you are supposed to know what you're doing. :-) Cheers, Sabahattin - -- Sabahattin Gucukoglu <mail<at>sabahattin<dash>gucukoglu<dot>com> Address harvesters, snag this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 88008915 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8 Comment: QDPGP - http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBSRNjuyNEOmEWtR2TEQJdjgCbBr8yzlg3JWoHGn+lt4exnhZ8f9wAoO5g JIEKIqo8sLEMGYLwhKb1oeJB =Q2p5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ BrailleNote mailing list [email protected] http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
