Dave,
This function is very, very good when you have a client that can't tell the
sender that the message has been received.
An example is below. This is generated by sendmail. If I get two (one like
this, and one from the receiving client), it OK.
I don't like to rely on the receivers ability to tell me that they have
received the message.
"
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: den 21 maj 2001 14:17
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Return receipt
The original message was received at Mon, 21 May 2001 14:16:29 +0200 (CEST)
from dmz.skriptor.com [195.84.158.65]
----- The following addresses had successful delivery notifications -----
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (relayed to non-DSN-aware mailer)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... relayed; expect no further notifications
"
Any better suggestions then hacking? =)
With Best Regards,
Peter Fredriksson
Compu-Mark Nordic AB
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: +46-8-4417730
Fax: +46-8-6980909
ICQ#: 6166226
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: den 31 maj 2001 15:51
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Return receipts on an SMTP relay machine...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>After a mail had been relayed to the internet, sendmail sent a receipt back
>to the sender. I can't get qmail to do that.
Hmm. So Sendmail on your relay sent a message to the sender of each
message it relayed informing them of the fact that it'd relayed the
message? And you found this desirable? What if every relay on the net
starting doing that? You'd often get 4-5 relay notifications for each
message you send. What's the point?
>I have read qreceipt's man page, but that only seems to apply to users on
>the local machine. This machine only has root and a couple of daemon users.
Yes, qreceipt allows users to confirm final delivery to senders who
request confirmation. That's much more reasonable than what you're
asking for.
>I realize that I have to patch qreceipt to recognize Outlooks SMTP tag for
>receipts, but how do I do that?
If you really want to do that, I think you'll have to hack
qmail-scanner[1] or implement a custom filter[2].
-Dave
Footnotes:
[1] http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/2142/fid/206
