Howto run a command in message hooks (was: Re: How to send a return receipt)

2007-10-24 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
. If thats true, then the problem I am currently stuck on should be fairly simple to solve. So some explanations, then my question: I want to write a script that _asks_ the user, if he wants to send a return receipt (note how that differs from your assumption that a macro would be suffice. For me

Re: Howto run a command in message hooks (was: Re: How to send a return receipt)

2007-10-24 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Patrick Schoenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-24-07 10:42]: I want to write a script that _asks_ the user, if he wants to send a return receipt (note how that differs from your assumption that a macro would be suffice. For me it wouldn't because w/o

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-23 Thread Rado S
=- Patrick Schoenfeld wrote on Mon 22.Oct'07 at 20:45:53 +0200 -= HTML mails, hmm. Bad thing. I don't like, nor do I write them myself, but receiving them (because some suppliers think they don't have to follow my wish if I ask them to not do so) is very uncomfortable in mutt. But its just

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-23 Thread Rado S
=- Derek Martin wrote on Mon 22.Oct'07 at 11:46:26 -0400 -= But still, I want my mailer to do everything related to the normal processing of mail, mostly without any fuss from me. I should only have to make a fuss if what I want to do is unusual -- which this isn't. a) how to determine usual

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-23 Thread Rado S
=- Derek Martin wrote on Wed 17.Oct'07 at 10:58:52 -0400 -= On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:52:03AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Actually, one of the things that makes mutt suck less than other MUAs is that it *doesn't* have additional hundreds of little-used features to cause bloat, bugs,

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-23 Thread Rado S
=- Patrick Schoenfeld wrote on Wed 17.Oct'07 at 16:48:24 +0200 -= After all its not too hard to achieve all this, but its wasted effort, as with a lot of care you cannot guarantee that this will run in a few days, weeks or months because admin could decide to remove just one of the tools you

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-23 Thread Rado S
=- Derek Martin wrote on Wed 17.Oct'07 at 7:33:46 -0400 -= Being able to say, Mutt can do that, if you write a script to do it, and write a macro to invoke the script and... does not constitute support for a feature in Mutt. Mutt should implement features that are commonly implemented in

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-23 Thread Rado S
=- Derek Martin wrote on Tue 16.Oct'07 at 18:32:00 -0400 -= If your pet feature is minimal code, but the developers don't want to include it because what you're asking is already possible another way -- just maintain a local patch for it. So have I, and it sucks. I agree, in general.

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-23 Thread Rado S
=- Derek Martin wrote on Tue 16.Oct'07 at 17:39:49 -0400 -= If a function is e-mail related, and commonly supported by other mailers, then it seems to me Mutt should have built-in support for it too. Mutt is a Mail USER Agent (not a mail DEVELOPER agent), and it should interoperate with other

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-23 Thread Rado S
=- Patrick Schoenfeld wrote on Mon 22.Oct'07 at 15:37:45 +0200 -= I don't think that the term 'harmful' needs an explination in whats mutt about. Harmful is what affects mutt in any negative way. Thats not about philosophy, but about technical matters. Well, ... your viewpoint is limited to

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-23 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:14:48PM +0200, Rado S wrote: Yes, but I think you're too paranoid or haven't noticed the required tools for such a solution: they are _basic_ unix tools like ls, which I don't know who you process headers with basic unix tools, but I don't care. Because i face the

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-23 Thread Rado S
=- Derek Martin wrote on Sun 21.Oct'07 at 20:55:07 -0400 -= {...} with its major goal being to suck less than the other mail clients. It says the latter explicitly on its home page. Inasmuch as it does not implement standard features offered by other clients, it is a failure in that goal.

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-23 Thread Rado S
=- Patrick Schoenfeld wrote on Tue 23.Oct'07 at 20:28:41 +0200 -= Because i face the fact that it is _impossible_ to convince you. You exepect us to prove that the feature request is valid, No, I see your point, you don't have to convince me nor prove anything. I'm absolutely clear about your

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 08:55:07PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: Just because you know when somebody has seen a mail 1st time, it doesn't mean it will be processed faster thereafter. This is not why return receipts exist. They exist so that the receiver can say, I know you saw my e-mail, I have

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-22 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 05:15:10PM +0200, Rado S wrote: Before we (you or I) can judge what is harm- or useful to mutt, we both would have to know 1st what mutt is about. I don't know it (yet), do you? I don't think that the term 'harmful' needs an explination in whats mutt about. Harmful is

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:37:45PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: No. It is not important to _me_. It is important, because it is wideley used in business environments and supported by _every_ mua used in business environments, which makes it potentially used, which makes it important if you

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-10-11 11:28:46, schrieb David Champion: This is correct. Mutt doesn't internally support MDNs. A patch has been posted by Werner Koch, but it might not be current. Check the mutt-dev archives. Does this only mean, sending of MDN's or receiving? I use mutt from Debian and sometimes

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:46:26AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: Yes, in my eyes this is good. Like always if certain features for surveillance or monitoring are available, people want to use it. So it is far better to not implement them. You did know that Mutt is one of the most configurable mail

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-22 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 06:20:41PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: I know this. But if your boss asks you, if your client can do MDNs and if yes, you must activate it, it is far easier to say, no, it can not do this. If your boss is going to ask you that question, then the next thing out of is

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-22 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 06:20:41PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: I know this. But if your boss asks you, if your client can do MDNs and if yes, you must activate it, it is far easier to say, no, it can not do this. I don't believe that a boss that *asks* weither your MUA supports something that

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-22 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:39:55PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: Say, like HTML mails, vCards, vacation messages, address books? Nothing of this sort is supported by mutt but relies on external programs. HTML mails, hmm. Bad thing. I don't like, nor do I write them myself, but receiving them

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-21 Thread Rado S
=- Patrick Schoenfeld wrote on Thu 18.Oct'07 at 20:52:22 +0200 -= Depends on what you want to achieve: do we want mutt to be acceptable in the business no matter what? if we were talking about anything thats very harmful to mutt in general I would say: No. Before we (you or I) can judge

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-18 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:30:07PM +0200, Rado S wrote: Depends on what you want to achieve: do we want mutt to be acceptable in the business no matter what? if we were talking about anything thats very harmful to mutt in general I would say: No. But we are talking about a mini feature,

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-18 Thread Rado S
=- Jing Xue wrote on Wed 17.Oct'07 at 22:38:05 -0400 -= Because coders are supposed to code solutions into a tool, not to code their ideology into it. Why is that so? It's not like you're forced such a ideology-loaded tool or are entitled to use the work of somebody else against

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-18 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * Patrick Schoenfeld [07-10-18 20:52:22 +0200] wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:30:07PM +0200, Rado S wrote: Depends on what you want to achieve: do we want mutt to be acceptable in the business no matter what? if we were talking about anything thats very harmful to mutt in general I

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:54:16PM +0200, Rado S wrote: color header ^dispo... color1 color2 that is what I currently do, but you cannot call this a notification. In fact it is nothing more then a mark. And so its a workaround again. One action: macro(s). Well, you are right that this

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:50:41AM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: I don't know whats those 'many other', but mutt does support nearly all common email features I am aware off. It even supports Delivery Status Notifications that are (as far as I can see that) less wideley supported and

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread David Ellement
On 2007-10-17, Stephan Seitz wrote What you want is an invasion of privacy of every reader. It is not of your concern if and when a user reads your mail. Mr. Schoenfeld has stated several times in this thread that he is trying to respond to requests for a return receipt from his *customers*.

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:10:21AM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:50:41AM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: I don't know whats those 'many other', but mutt does support nearly all common email features I am aware off. It even supports Delivery Status Notifications that

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:10:21AM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: But DSNs are the way to go. The server should send the notification that it how can you define whats the way to go, if I can show you a usecase were this is exactly isn't whats needed neither whats wanted? It has been said a

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:04:34PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:32:00PM EDT, Derek Martin wrote: Maintaining patches for features that lots of people want is a stupid waste of work. If the maintainers don't want to maintain the code, then they probably should stop being

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:52:03AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Being able to say, Mutt can do that, if you write a script to do it, and write a macro to invoke the script and... does not constitute support for a feature in Mutt. Not sure why not. The particular script or hook in

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:52:03AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Actually, one of the things that makes mutt suck less than other MUAs is that it *doesn't* have additional hundreds of little-used features to cause bloat, bugs, user confusion, and UI complication for no real added benefit. As

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, Derek I can only agree with you in everything you wrote. On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:58:52AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: Actually I think this is a fine example of why that argument is total nonsense. Since SMTP support has been added, in what measurable way has it caused Mutt to suck

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread David Champion
What you want is an invasion of privacy of every reader. It is not of your concern if and when a user reads your mail. Such a feature should never be part of mutt. Besides if you are sending a mail to more than one recipient or an alias, you will get a notification from every recipient.

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Jing Xue
Quoting Stephan Seitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What you want is an invasion of privacy of every reader. It is not of your concern if and when a user reads your mail. Such a feature should never be part of mutt. It is not of the sender's concern _only_ when the recipient says so. The recipient

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Rado S
=- Jing Xue wrote on Wed 17.Oct'07 at 12:17:08 -0400 -= The point here is, people and groups of people operate vastly differently, often in ways that we never think of. So why should an MUA be so morally judgmental? If nobody does, where should moral come from? If somebody does, why is

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:10:38PM +0200, Rado S wrote: In fact, I couldn't care less about mail receipts myself on a technical level. The reason I got involved in this debate is because I can't agree that a tool should decide whether a feature is socially appropriate or not for its users.

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Rado S
=- Patrick Schoenfeld wrote on Wed 17.Oct'07 at 9:50:41 +0200 -= color header ^dispo... color1 color2 that is what I currently do, but you cannot call this a notification. In fact it is nothing more then a mark. And so its a workaround again. Hum... now we are at preference level and

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Rado S
=- Derek Martin wrote on Wed 17.Oct'07 at 15:22:41 -0400 -= Taking this argument to extremes, Mutt can contain *NO CODE* and that argument still applies. The user is still free to implement whatever missing features he wants, using shell scripts to glue together self-written programs and

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-17-07 09:51]: Actually, one of the things that makes mutt suck less than other MUAs is that it *doesn't* have additional hundreds of little-used features to cause bloat, bugs, user confusion, and UI

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Joseph
On 10/17/07 15:37, Patrick Shanahan wrote: [snip] As a related example, I'm still disappointed SMTP support got added. agreed, repetition of a function already provided by default installation of all linux distros that I am familiar. It's akin to including an editor, html browser, picture

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Jing Xue
Quoting Rado S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: =- Jing Xue wrote on Wed 17.Oct'07 at 12:17:08 -0400 -= The point here is, people and groups of people operate vastly differently, often in ways that we never think of. So why should an MUA be so morally judgmental? If nobody does, where should moral come

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Rado S
=- David Champion wrote on Wed 17.Oct'07 at 10:42:41 -0500 -= If your business environment requires MDN replies, then the upshot is that mutt is regarded as unacceptable in the business environment. Nobody wins. Depends on what you want to achieve: do we want mutt to be acceptable in the

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Rado S
=- Jing Xue wrote on Wed 17.Oct'07 at 16:07:28 -0400 -= If nobody does, where should moral come from? If somebody does, why is anyone more qualified than the other? If all are the same, why not the coder(s)? Because coders are supposed to code solutions into a tool, not to code their

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:33:46AM EDT, Derek Martin wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:04:34PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:32:00PM EDT, Derek Martin wrote: Maintaining patches for features that lots of people want is a stupid waste of work. If the maintainers don't

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-17 Thread Jing Xue
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:42:06PM +0200, Rado S wrote: =- Jing Xue wrote on Wed 17.Oct'07 at 16:07:28 -0400 -= Because coders are supposed to code solutions into a tool, not to code their ideology into it. (well as far as software tools are concerned) Why is that so? It's not like

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-16 Thread Jing Xue
Quoting Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The concept of mail receipts is poorly designed; there is no way to implement a reliable receipt notification system with SMTP mail. *Many* of the better mail packages therefore do not implement support for it -- why have a feature if you *know* it

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-16 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:18:05AM EDT, Jing Xue wrote: Quoting Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The concept of mail receipts is poorly designed; there is no way to implement a reliable receipt notification system with SMTP mail. *Many* of the better mail packages therefore do not

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-16 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:18:05AM -0400, Jing Xue wrote: Well, in the corporate* world where people communicate over Lotus Notes or Outlook, they tend to use mail receipts a lot. And _because_ they all communicate over the same MUA that supports the feature, it actually does work and

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-16 Thread Rado S
=- Patrick Schoenfeld wrote on Tue 16.Oct'07 at 21:24:22 +0200 -= In fact mutt is the only mailer I found not supporting it Return-receipts being standard replies with a preformatted content (nothing special about them), mutt _does_ support them, just not built-in as you would like it to be so

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-16 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:46:19PM +0200, Rado S wrote: Return-receipts being standard replies with a preformatted content (nothing special about them), mutt _does_ support them, just not Well, the problem is that what you describe is not all. Additional the feature (to be comparable) it is a

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-16 Thread Rado S
=- Patrick Schoenfeld wrote on Tue 16.Oct'07 at 22:26:05 +0200 -= Additional the feature (to be comparable) it is a notification that the sender asked for a return receipt and it is a one-action-thing to confirm this. {...} You keep talking like it was a simple configuration change, but

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-16 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:46:19PM +0200, Rado S wrote: =- Patrick Schoenfeld wrote on Tue 16.Oct'07 at 21:24:22 +0200 -= In fact mutt is the only mailer I found not supporting it Return-receipts being standard replies with a preformatted content (nothing special about them), mutt _does_

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-16 Thread Charles Cazabon
Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:46:19PM +0200, Rado S wrote: It's not a bug but a feature that not everything that is possible is built-in but must/can be accomplished elsewhere. I have always, and still do find this argument to be um, less than well

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-16 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 04:08:24PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:46:19PM +0200, Rado S wrote: It's not a bug but a feature that not everything that is possible is built-in but must/can be accomplished elsewhere. I have

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-16 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:32:00PM EDT, Derek Martin wrote: [..] Maintaining patches for features that lots of people want is a stupid waste of work. If the maintainers don't want to maintain the code, then they probably should stop being maintainers. Please be more specific. What are

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-14 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 12:40:08AM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: No. You get me wrong, repeatedly. I'm asking for a proof that a message has reached a single role. It does not matter if more then one person can actually be the role. Hm, do you mean, it is enough for you if the last server

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-14 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 12:40:08AM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 10:10:45PM +0100, Chris G wrote: But you're asking for proof that it reached us as the recipient for multiple recipients apparently, with a *single* acknowledgement. That's just not possible in any

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-13 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:35:02PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: Thus, any message that does not have an X-Disposition-Sent header is a message that you haven't sent a response to, and messages that DO have such a header won't trigger the macro. That does not work (at least in my case) because

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-13 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 02:06:44PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: Oh, come on, the appropriate docs would be the *mutt* documentation, of course! Can we possibly ask a more vague or open-ended question? Haha! If it would be so obvious I wouldn't have asked, hu? Take for granted that I had a look

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-13 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 01:14:07PM -0600, Joseph wrote: 8.12: How to send an auto-reply back when someone posts? thanks for that hint, but actually a auto-reply is not appropriate. I need something to actually confirm, because someone might already have sent it out. In another part of the

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-13 Thread Chris G
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:58:52PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Hi, On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 01:14:07PM -0600, Joseph wrote: 8.12: How to send an auto-reply back when someone posts? thanks for that hint, but actually a auto-reply is not appropriate. I need something to actually

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-13 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 01:37:13PM +0100, Chris G wrote: Surely if a mail is sent to (say) ten recipients it's pretty useless to know that it got to just one of them. If all ten recipients had Eh.. no?! If you send it to 10 different recipients, with each representing a different role, then

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-13 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, October 13 at 12:50 PM, quoth Patrick Schoenfeld: On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:35:02PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: Thus, any message that does not have an X-Disposition-Sent header is a message that you haven't sent a response to, and

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-13 Thread Chris G
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 04:13:11PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 01:37:13PM +0100, Chris G wrote: Surely if a mail is sent to (say) ten recipients it's pretty useless to know that it got to just one of them. If all ten recipients had Eh.. no?! If you send it to

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-13 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 04:30:44PM +0100, Chris G wrote: But as I understand it in most 'normal' MUAs if you have one address for several people then it's split into separate messages at the sender end of things and from then on is simply a separate message to each recipient. But in which way

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-13 Thread Chris G
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 07:58:16PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 04:30:44PM +0100, Chris G wrote: But as I understand it in most 'normal' MUAs if you have one address for several people then it's split into separate messages at the sender end of things and from

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-13 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 10:10:45PM +0100, Chris G wrote: But you're asking for proof that it reached us as the recipient for multiple recipients apparently, with a *single* acknowledgement. That's just not possible in any sort of system. No. You get me wrong, repeatedly. I'm asking for a proof

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-12 Thread Rado S
=- Patrick Schoenfeld wrote on Thu 11.Oct'07 at 20:53:41 +0200 -= Simply send a regular reply: Seen and will do it. Thanks for the advice, but this ain't a solution. Why not? What is it different from what you're looking for? =- Patrick Schoenfeld wrote on Fri 12.Oct'07 at 12:33:00 +0200

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-12 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 05:04:22PM +0200, Rado S wrote: Why not? What is it different from what you're looking for? a lot of extra effort is the difference. You cannot really compare sending a return receipt with sending a mail, where a r-got it really isn't enough. Mutt can do that to,

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-12 Thread Rado S
=- Patrick Schoenfeld wrote on Fri 12.Oct'07 at 20:22:41 +0200 -= On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 05:04:22PM +0200, Rado S wrote: Why not? What is it different from what you're looking for? a lot of extra effort is the difference. You cannot really compare sending a return receipt with sending a

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-12 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 01:23:13PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: The concept of mail receipts is poorly designed; there is no way to implement I agree, if you look at whats given by the aspect of a evidence in law terms but it is practical if it is part of a given process between people. In

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-12 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, October 12 at 08:22 PM, quoth Patrick Schoenfeld: Well, mutt can a lot but as I figured it does not support mail notificiation as usual, but yes possibly there are ways to reach the goal of mail notifications anyway -- at least

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-12 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, October 12 at 02:03 PM, quoth Kyle Wheeler: message-hook '~h Disposition-Notification-To:' \ 'pipe-messagesend-mdn.shenter' On considering, I think this would actually be better written: message-hook '~N ~h

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-12 Thread Joseph
On 10/12/07 20:22, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: [snip] Well, mutt can a lot but as I figured it does not support mail notificiation as usual, but yes possibly there are ways to reach the goal of mail notifications anyway -- at least somewhat like that. The problem is that I actually don't see

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-12 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, October 12 at 08:22 PM, quoth Patrick Schoenfeld: E.g. is it possible somehow with macros to send out a specific template as the reply to a customer? Yes. How? Any hint on appropriate docs would suffice. Oh, come on, the appropriate

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-12 Thread David Champion
Well, the first thing that springs to my mind is some sort of message-hook (since that's what triggers when you view a message). The difficulty with this approach is that you don't want to send an MDN response any time you read the message, so you need to track whether the message has ever

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-12 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, October 12 at 03:06 PM, quoth David Champion: Well, the first thing that springs to my mind is some sort of message-hook (since that's what triggers when you view a message). The difficulty with this approach is that you don't want to

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-12 Thread David Champion
The difficulty with this approach is that you don't want to send an MDN response any time you read the message, so you need to track whether the message has ever been read and MDN-replied to. You can do this with What? Poppycock. If the New flag is insufficient (and I would argue it

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-12 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, October 12 at 08:00 PM, quoth David Champion: The patch certainly provides better functionality than hooks, macros, and scripts do, given the usual constraints. I don't see what that missing functionality might be. Maybe I'm missing

How to send a return receipt

2007-10-11 Thread schoenfeld / in-medias-res
Hi, we have customers that send as jobs per email. Some of them set the I want to receive a return receipt-option which means that I (as the receipient) am asked if I want to send a return receipt. Technically the header set is Return-Receipt-To: with the email adress of the sender. It has become

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-11 Thread Rado S
=- schoenfeld / in-medias-res wrote on Thu 11.Oct'07 at 17:43:27 +0200 -= Some of them set the I want to receive a return receipt-option which means that I (as the receipient) am asked if I want to send a return receipt. Simply send a regular reply: Seen and will do it. -- © Rado S. -- You

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-11 Thread David Champion
asked if we want to send such a return receipt. Is this configurable? I also read somewhere that mutt doesn't support that but I can't believe that. Is that true? This is correct. Mutt doesn't internally support MDNs. A patch has been posted by Werner Koch, but it might not be current.

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-11 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:28:46AM -0500, David Champion wrote: This is correct. Mutt doesn't internally support MDNs. A patch has Uhh, thats funny... in a not funny at all way. :-( been posted by Werner Koch, but it might not be current. Check the mutt-dev archives. Hm. I will look for

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-11 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 05:59:45PM +0200, Rado S wrote: Simply send a regular reply: Seen and will do it. Thanks for the advice, but this ain't a solution. Regards, Patrick

Re: How to send a return receipt

2007-10-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Patrick Schoenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:28:46AM -0500, David Champion wrote: This is correct. Mutt doesn't internally support MDNs. A patch has Uhh, thats funny... in a not funny at all way. :-( been posted by Werner Koch, but it might not be current.