04-28-2005
See "Disposition-Notification-To Header" in
RFC 2298 - Message format for message disposition - this give you a quick look at the fact that it can be done.
See "X-Confirm-Reading-To"
Tracking E-mail - note that it states most email programs ingnore it.
The only thing I can't seem to find is where you would add this confirmation request - I thought sendmail didn't have this option and found on a qmail archive the following:
Quote:
> Hi,
>
> I swith one old sendmail server for qmail and everythings is working
> fine except one things. With the old server, my users can have a
> "Confirmation delivery", I mean when they send mail, the smtp server
> send them a mail to tell them that the mail was delivery successfully.
> Does qmail can do this
qmail doesn't support this natively. There may be patches floating
around to support it, but I haven't used them; Google should be able
to turn them up if they exist.
Yet I could not find on
Sendmail's site anything about it.
Of course, maybe I should have read the man page for 'mail' first! Check yours and look for option of /delivery or delivery notification - may be what you are looking for.
Last edited by RTM; 04-28-2005 at 10:11 AM..
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DESCRIPTION
The Tru64 UNIX mail system enables you to exchange mail with other users on your system, as well as with other systems connected to your
local network and with users on other networks (provided your system and network are connected to other networks).
Mail System Concepts
Mail systems consist of the following components: User agent - The user agent provides the interface through which you interact with the
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Tru64 UNIX provides the following user agents: CDE's Mailer - For further information, see the Common Desktop Environment: User's
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For further information, see the mh(1) and xmh(1X) reference pages. Transport agent - The transport agent provides an interface
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provides the mechanism for delivering the mail messages to end users, systems, and networks. The binmail and deliver commands are
delivery agents for standard mail and IMAP mail, respectively.
In Tru64 UNIX, the sendmail program acts as both the transport and delivery agent. It does so by implementing the Simple Mail Transfer Pro-
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Initially standards did not exist for mail addresses and computer networks. Many different address formats and network protocols exist.
Mail programs must interact with different network protocols, as well as recognize and reformat different mail address formats. Fortu-
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configuration file.
The Sendmail Configuration File
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agents Use address rewriting rules Define mail header information Perform some routing
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