KMail can request both read and delivery receipts if you like. I use that
feature all the time.
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 09:19, Kevin Fonner wrote:
> No... You didnt read my email carefully. What you described was a read
> receipt. These are common to most mail clients, and your right! They
> are a real pain when used for anything except important emails. I am
> talking about a DELIVERY receipts. They are not returned by the user
> but by the mail server. I know Microsoft Outlook has them when you use
> Exchange server. I find them very valuable. I was wondering if any
> clients or client/servers have this feature?
>
> Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> >Kevin:
> >
> >Netscape provides several options for this; don't know about other mail
> >programs. Go Edit > Preferences > Return Receipt. I'm not sure how
> >effective it is, though. Several weeks ago I sent an important document
> >and requested a receipt. The doc went through, but I never got a
> >receipt. It turned out that the server at the other end stripped all
> >receipt requests from external mail.
> >
> >However, please make sure that you don't ask for receipts when posting
> >to this list. It's a real pain, causes a lot of unnecessary traffic, and
> >may result in some nasty messages back to you.
> >Regards,
> >Carroll
> >
> >Kevin Fonner wrote:
> >>When I was running Windows I used Outlook 2000 and we have a MSExchange
> >>server. On outlook I could choose to get a delivery receipt(I don mean
> >>read receipts). I always hated those read reciepts except on sesitive
> >>documents. When I would check delivery reciept I would get an email
> >>back stating that my mail server had succesfully delivered it into the
> >>mailbox on so and so on this mail server. Is their a way to do that
> >>with linux? Either with a client or a client/server combination?
> >>
> >>--
> >>Kevin
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