At 1:14 PM -0400 7/5/02, Stephen Conway wrote: > Is there a way we can get qpopper to notify a sending party after the > receiver of the message downloads the message from the server? Or is > the qpopper source available so we can look at implementing such a > feature?
Standard Internet mail provides for two forms of status notifications: delivery status and message disposition. Delivery status notification on success can be requested by the originating client. Compliant mail servers will generate a success DSN when the message is deposited into the user's mail spool. This would happen before Qpopper is used to retrieve the message. Message disposition notification can also be requested by the originating client. Compliant clients will inform the user that the originator requested notification, and offer to generate it. This happens after Qpopper is used to fetch the message. Delivery status informs the originator that the message made it all the way to the final recipient's server. No information is provided as to if the recipient saw or read the message, deleted it, etc. Message disposition informs the originator as to the action that was performed by or on behalf of the final recipient (message was read, message was deleted, etc.) Note that there are privacy and security concerns with the latter, which is why compliant clients offer to generate a status notification, but don't do so automatically. To answer your second question: Qpopper is distributed with full source code. But I'd advice using one of the standard mechanisms instead of hacking Qpopper to do this.
