Re: How to place a request of receipt for an outgoing mail?

2002-01-07 Thread Chris Gentle
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:30:53AM +0800, Charles Jie wrote: After reading Cliff's post and mutt's manual, I am not sure whether Disposition-Notification-To: will do what I want. I've read all the other arguments about whether read-receipts are a good thing. Whether they are or not they are

Re: How to place a request of receipt for an outgoing mail?

2002-01-07 Thread David T-G
Chris -- ...and then Chris Gentle said... % % On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:30:53AM +0800, Charles Jie wrote: % % After reading Cliff's post and mutt's manual, I am not sure whether % Disposition-Notification-To: will do what I want. % % I've read all the other arguments about whether

Re: How to place a request of receipt for an outgoing mail?

2002-01-06 Thread Charles Jie
Hi, Erika, It looks your postman is specailly friendly to you and you never have to sign a receipt for a registered snail mail. (Or you just reject them all. :) I think such function or mechanism USEFUL because some people, including me, need it from time to time. And I believe most of people

Re: How to place a request of receipt for an outgoing mail?

2002-01-05 Thread Erika Pacholleck
[03.01.02 11:30 +0800] Charles Jie -- : What I want to get is the RECIPIENT's answering (eg. thru a dialog box), not of the system. The value of this mechanism is that the recipient is automatically prompted for a receipt, and I can get noticed as soon as possible when he/she is back or

Re: How to place a request of receipt for an outgoing mail?

2002-01-05 Thread Alain Bench
Hello Cliff, On Wednesday, January 2, 2002 at 3:18:21 PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: Put this line in your muttrc to always request for receipt: my_hdr Disposition-Notification-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The MTA's involved have to understand this, all of them along the way if I recall

Re: How to place a request of receipt for an outgoing mail?

2002-01-05 Thread Alain Bench
On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 11:30:53 AM +0800, Charles Jie wrote: After reading Cliff's post and mutt's manual, I am not sure whether Disposition-Notification-To: will do what I want. It will. Exactly as the « request read receipt for all outgoing mails » option in

Re: How to place a request of receipt for an outgoing mail?

2002-01-02 Thread Alain Bench
Hello Charles, hello ALL, and happy new year for everyone! I'm new in this list, and not really fluent in english, sorry. But it's a good day to begin. :-) On Monday, December 31, 2001 at 11:15:10 AM +0800, Charles Jie wrote: I was able to request for receipt in my mail while using

Re: How to place a request of receipt for an outgoing mail?

2002-01-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:05:40PM +0100, Alain Bench wrote: Hello Charles, hello ALL, and happy new year for everyone! I'm new in this list, and not really fluent in english, sorry. But it's a good day to begin. :-) On Monday, December 31, 2001 at 11:15:10 AM +0800, Charles Jie

Re: How to place a request of receipt for an outgoing mail?

2002-01-02 Thread Lars Hecking
Frankly it is a diabolical practise, causes uneccessary and pointless mail. If a mail is so important that you *must* be certain it has been read then phone the person up. Since the mechanism is inherently unreliable anyway, what is the point of using it ? Exactly. Every now and then, I

Re: How to place a request of receipt for an outgoing mail?

2002-01-02 Thread Charles Jie
Hi, thank you, Alain, et al, After reading Cliff's post and mutt's manual, I am not sure whether Disposition-Notification-To: will do what I want. It's said it's dealt with by MTA. And reports success when the transmission succeeds. -- Does that mean the mail just succeessfully drops into the

How to place a request of receipt for an outgoing mail?

2001-12-30 Thread Charles Jie
I was able to request for receipt in my mail while using Outlook Express or Netscape. But how to do it in Mutt? Thanks. charlie -- Charles Jie (¬ö¬K¿³) Keya Technologies (¶}¶®¬ì§Þ) (O) +886 2 2936 0813 (Mobile) 0920 397 746