--On 9 November 2006 15:18:22 +0000 Chris Lightfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 03:09:59PM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> --On 9 November 2006 11:56:13 +0000 Chris Lightfoot >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 11:54:34AM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> >> --On 7 November 2006 15:15:56 +0000 Chris Lightfoot >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] >> >>> how do you allow the recipient to discover when mail they >> >>> wanted has been blocked? >> >> >> >> You don't. >> > >> > this is great until one of your users wants to receive >> > (say) a confirmation email link sent by a website. >> > >> Yes, you can achieve a lot by selective quoting. Perhaps I should repeat >> myself: >> >> "In the other case, where the recipient has asked for an email to be >> sent, they'll know it's missing because it isn't in their mailbox." > > but what do they do in that case? if the message is > accessible to them, they just have to copy it from their > spam folder; otherwise they have to wait for the weekly > report, or go and hassle the admin, or whatever. > That's a different question from "how do they know?", which is the one that I was attempting to answer. Anyway, you've answered the question. My question to you is this. Suppose the email is an important email, and it's languishing in a spam folder. How does the sender know that the message hasn't arrived? Answer: there's no way to know. Of course, the recipient doesn't know either. Putting an email in a spam folder only helps when the recipient is expecting the email, and that often isn't the case. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
