procmail? Marvin Pascual wrote:
> Hello all, > > I don't know if the subject is right but what I need is your suggestion > regarding on how I can include a "confirmation link" in a text format e-mail > message. This is the scenario: > > We will be sending a notification e-mail message to taxpayers. When a > taxpayer receives and read the message, he/she must make a reply to us (BIR) > that he/she receives our e-mail notification. In short, we need the > taxpayer's confirmation message. > > Now, the problem goes like this. By default, usually a person who receives > an e-mail message will just click the REPLY button of his/her favorite MUA > (and this is actually the case if we are subscribing a mailing list like > this) to confirm or to make a reply to the previous e-mail message. But in > our case, it will be too messy if we will just be accepting an e-mail > message wherein the subject starts something like "RE:". Our operators will > still need to open the e-mail message and read whatever the contents of that > message. If we are just expecting the taxpayers' confirmation that they > were able to receives and read our e-mail notification, perhaps there should > have a more decent way to do this and this is what I want to ask from you. > > In our template e-mail message, we want to include: > > For text format - a link that says something like "I received and read the > BIR's e-mail notification". > For HTML format - an "OK" button to confirm the message like "I received and > read the BIR's e-mail notification". > > ...that when a taxpayer clicks the "link" (if it's a text format message) or > the "button" (if it's HTML format), it automatically sends an e-mail to us > with a different contents and subject already. Probably, the subject will > be changed something like "Confirmation blah blah blah" and the body of the > message will be changed already. This message/template is not visible from > the taxpayers' MUA, it will just automatically sends it to us when he/she > clicks the link or the button. > > Is it possible? How can we include such feature in our e-mail notifications > to the taxpayers so that they will not just click the REPLY button but > instead, they will just click the "link" or the "button" that will be > included in our template and sends their confirmations to us automatically. > > BTW, we will be using Postfix on Mandrake Linux 9.0 or at least Red Hat > Linux 8.0. > > Thanks in advance. > > --- > MARVIN T. PASCUAL > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel. #: (+63-2) 925-2053/981-7068 > Mobile #: (+62-919) 314-1254 > Linux User No. 247147 > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 4/17/02 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: Marvin T. Pascual.vcf > Marvin T. Pascual.vcf Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: Base64 > > Name: headers.txt > headers.txt Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: base64 -- vitually yours, jun Ricardo P. Garin jr. Information Security Solutions Group (ISSG) 3/F Wesolv Open Computing, Inc. Fujitsu House Tel.#: 893.71.55 loc. 1385 & 1383 "What good is technology if it takes 6 seconds to send a message but 6 months to get someone act on it?" --glasbergen _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
