On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 11:09:18AM -0000, Pedro Melo wrote:
> > Most new MUAs (Outlook/Exchange, Netscape, MUTT) support DSN, and it doesn't
> > matter if DSN isn't that great an idea - it's still there and people like
> > getting receipts to important messages :-(
>
> huhs??? He asked about ETRN... ETRN and DSN are not related.
Whoops - brain fart - I replied to the wrong message. :-}
> Also, check qreceipt man page for something similar.
I'm sorry??? qreceipt is Qmail-specific:
HARDLY ANYONE USES QMAIL (except all of us of course).
Most people in the world are sitting on PeeCees running M$ OSes. DSN is the
nearest thing to a standard the Internet has for acknowledging Email
delivery and the most used SMTP server in use today (sendmail) supports it.
I'm wanting to replace our sendmail environment with qmail, but the biggest
problem I have is that my users (sitting on an Exchange server no less) will
suddenly lose the ability to do delivery receipts - something they have to
rely on as they primarily send Email to other MS$ systems (which have a
habit of losing Email ;-).
It doesn't matter that this all sucks and we should be using something else
- as we all know - technical capability of solutions means little to modern
business these days - packaging and little sounds when you push buttons are
much more important.
[Hmmm, must be going to be a good day for me - better stay away from sharp
objects ;-)]
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Cheers
Jason Haar
Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
