In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dr. Klaus Eimert wrote: > farcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> It's really a pretty pointless feature. As I understand it - if you >> request a return receipt using say - OE - then it only works if the mail >> is opened on an OE client at the other end. It doesn't work if the mail >> is opened on Eudora. I think the same applies to almost all email >> clients as there is no standard for this feature. > > Hm, I didn't think it works this way. Well, the opened receipt might work > like this. But the "delivered" should work independendly from the e-mail > client, since it should tell you, that the mail has been delivered > to/picked up from the e-mail server. Did I get this wrong?
in which case, maybe you are referring to DSN rather than MDN (DSN is an extension to the SMTP protocol, and is handled by mail servers, MDN is in the message headers, and is handled by clients as described above). the replies you've had so far relate to MDN, which is supported by Netscape 4, Outlook Express and some other clients. DSN, on the other hand, is not well supported by email clients or servers generally. there is a RFE filed for it, but it's not looking like happening soon - http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93085 (i notice that 93085 is marked as "4xp" - did netscape 4.x really have support for DSN as well as MDN? or is that keyword on there a mistake?) -- michael
