michael lefevre wrote: > 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?) >
From the Netscape 4.79 Mail & News preferences, Return Receipts section: <quote> If I request a receipt when sending a message, I want [ ] A delivery receipt from the receiving server [DSN] [ ] A read receipt, notifying me when recipients display the message [MDN] [ ] Both types of receipt </quote> So it supports requesting DSNs as well as MDNs. Additionally, it supports returning MDNs. In my experience, most mail servers support responding to DSN requests and it seems to be the sendmail default. Also, I've found that Netscape 4.7x (linux and Windows), Outlook, Outlook Express, and KMail (linux/KDE) all support responding to MDN requests (or not, if that's how you've configured them). I've never tried Eudora for very long, nor any of the other linux mail clients (KMail meets my needs there). Regards, Tim
